In our previous article, The Spam Battleground, published November 07 2003, we reported on the ever-growing problem of spam (unsolicited, commercial e-mail messages) and the efforts being made on the technological, legislative and litigation fronts to reduce the spam problem.1 The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with information regarding the federal CAN-SPAM Act that was signed by the President on December 16, 2003, and generally became effective on January 1, 2004.2
Canning Spam
The "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003," Public Law No. 108-187, is commonly known as the CAN-SPAM Act (the "Act").3 The Act is lengthy and multi-faceted. This article presents an overview of what the authors believe are its most important and interesting provisions....
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The Scottish Government has today invited consultation on its proposal to increase the scope of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 ("the Act").
The FSA have published a Statement regarding 'have read and understood declarations'. The Statement follows an undertaking published in January 2009 from The On-Line Partnership Limited.
The Founder of the biggest computer microprocessor corporation in the world, Intel Corporation, predicted in 1965 that roughly every two years the amount of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would double.
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Three UK councils – London Borough of Barnet Council, West Sussex County Council and Buckinghamshire County Council – have come under fire from the Information Commissioner's Office regarding their lack of staff training on data protection.
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