Tag Archives: anti spam law

Federal authorities say two men accused of running a spam campaign in Columbia Missouri that targeted college students reaped in the profits to the tune of over $4 million.  Investigators say Amir Shah, Osmaan Shah, and Paul Zucker began their …

British ISPs have reacted strongly to the suggestion of Trend Micro CTO David Rand that the ISPs should actively combat the problem of spam on the internet. Rand’s suggestion is the blocking of TCP port 25 (the port used for …

It has been a big year for the internet with social networks continuing to grow at an amazing pace, search engines scrambling to keep pace with user demand for fresh news, and as always spam and malware causing havoc around …

The fight to reinstate Virginia’s anti-spam law was dealt a fatal blow yesterday when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The law, which was enacted in 2003, was declared unconstitutional last September by Virginia’s State Supreme Court, which …

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Which of these G8 countries is the odd one out? Well, I suppose that each of them is in some way, but Canada is unique among the …

The spammer that Facebook won a landmark $873 million settlement against last month operated out of Canada, leading to criticism of the country’s lax anti-spam regulations. They did attempt to address the problem of spam in 2004 when they formed …