In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation.
Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair Trade Commission FTC is required to develop within the next six months, plans for a US-wide registry for Internet users who generally do not want e-mail advertising. Senders of unsolicited commercial messages can be prosecuted up to six million dollars with fines of up to two million dollars, in the case of deliberate violation of even. Mailers misleading advertising or unprotected pornographic offers threaten even imprisonment.
Critics did, however, the new provisions do not go far enough. In their view, legitimizing the new law a number of advertising messages that are perceived by the recipients are still as annoying garbage. Moreover, it is difficult to enforce the law, since many of the responsible companies have their headquarters outside the United States. The junk mail now accounts for more than 50 percent of all e-mail traffic.
A survey by the Pew Institute, according to U.S., 70 percent of the 117 million email users in the U.S. so no more fun at the correspondence via the Internet. According to calculations by the Research Institute Ferris U.S. companies suffered through additional work in identifying and deleting spam in the past year, a productivity loss of nine billion dollars. In Germany, for instance, Federal Consumer Protection Minister Renate Künast (Green) announced in the summer of stricter rules to curb spam. Basically, e-mail advertising is the future must be sent only after prior consent of the recipient. According to consumer changes in the coming year the Ministry will enter into force. According to calculations by the EU Commission, the damage is through spam in Europe at around 2.2 billion € per year.
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
In the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam), the U.S. Congress as reported by one of the toughest laws in the world adopted. Microsoft and the Internet service provider America Online (AOL) have now welcomed the tightening of legislation. Under the new rules Providers are obligated to their advertising messages to uniquely identify. The Fair [...]
