Anti-spam bill passed

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Congress OKs anti-spam bill

Congress OKs anti-spam bill 12/09/2003 12:23 AM
CNN Dec 8 2003 11:22PM ET

Bush signs anti-spam bill

Bush signs anti-spam bill 12/17/2003 07:20 AM
Computer Weekly Dec 17 2003 6:21AM ET

Congress approves anti-spam bill

Congress approves anti-spam bill 12/08/2003 09:29 PM
CNN Dec 8 2003 8:35PM ET

Bush Signs Anti-Spam Bill

Bush Signs Anti-Spam Bill 12/17/2003 06:09 AM
Spammers violating the new law could be looking at stiff fines and even prison terms under legislation signed into law by the White House.

Congress passes anti-spam bill

Congress passes anti-spam bill 12/09/2003 09:45 AM
'Ham fisted' CAN-SPAM Act

Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill

Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill 12/08/2003 09:29 PM
AP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 8:36PM ET

House could vote soon on Senate
anti-spam bill

House could vote soon on Senate
anti-spam bill 10/31/2003 03:50 AM
USA Today Oct 31 2003 3:19AM ET

Bush signs national anti-spam bill into
law

Bush signs national anti-spam bill into
law 12/16/2003 05:22 PM
U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill into law Tuesday establishing federal rules for commercial e-mail and penalties for sending unsolicited mass spam e-mails...

Maryland lawmakers approve tough
anti-spam bill

Maryland lawmakers approve tough
anti-spam bill 04/14/2004 03:42 AM
SiliconValley.com Apr 14 2004 7:56AM GMT

Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House

Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House 12/08/2003 08:19 PM

Another Pro-Hollywood Senate Bill Passed
By Voice Vote

Another Pro-Hollywood Senate Bill Passed
By Voice Vote 06/28/2004 05:22 AM
On Friday, we wrote about how the Senat e slipped in -- by voice vote -- an approval of the PIRATE Act, which would have the government doing the entertainment industry's dirty work for them (with your tax money). It appears that another pro-Hollywood bill was passed in a similar manner at the same time. This one would make it a much bigger crime to record a movie in the theater as well as add more jail time to those caught releasing movies or music before the commercial release of those products. This isn't quite as bad as the California law that could throw people in jail just for bringing a video camera into a theater, but it still seems quite excessive. It's already illegal to do these things. The only reason for this new law appears to be to use an even bigger stick against a crime many people don't think is that big of a deal. Clearly, our politicians are quite out of touch with the people they're supposed to represent -- though, they're still very much in touch with those who line their entertainment industry backers.

bl0g note that Bill c-250 has passed in
the Canadian Senate

bl0g note that Bill c-250 has passed in
the Canadian Senate 04/30/2004 09:20 AM
Gay Brownshirt Enabling Act Passes in Canada

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Piracy Bill Passed By Senate,
Intellectual Property Protecte

Piracy Bill Passed By Senate,
Intellectual Property Protecte 05/18/2004 07:22 PM
AGI Online May 18 2004 11:10PM GMT

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
Secure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™) automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms, Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam 09/04/2004 03:04 AM
Olive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Aren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal ground, they're moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent 11/16/2003 02:34 AM
An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for ...

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology 11/19/2003 03:54 AM
DoubleClick Nov 19 2003 3:21AM ET

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.

Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate...

Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.

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Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates!

Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates! 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
Every time someone introduces a new anti-spam technique, some wily spammer devises a workaround. This myriad of actions and reactions is going to tie our e-mail system in knots. The only real solution to unsolicited mail is to eliminate the problem altogether by stopping spam at the source. To this end, the folks at ImagineNation have proposed an eMstamp solution and have set out to publicly answer the many questions that the proposal has raised. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam? 12/18/2003 02:16 AM
Now the CAN SPAM legislation has passed into law, will it actually cut spam?

Anti-Gmail Bill Introduced

Anti-Gmail Bill Introduced 04/28/2004 10:29 AM
Seth Finkelstein reports that California State Senator Liz Figueroa has introduced her bizarre bill. Press release, Info, Text. I've talked to several privacy advocates (and I'd like to think of myself as a privacy advocate, as well) and I have yet to understand any possible scenario where this bill makes sense. (If you think you can explain it, please tell me.) Let's be clear: This bill would make Gmail illegal. It wouldn't ask them to change some poor business practices, it wouldn't ask them to add privacy protections, it would just force Google to fund it some way without ads or shut it down. So why go to this drastic step? What's the harm? As I see it, there are three parts to Gmail: Receive your email. Every web email service does this, and nobody has objected. Store up to a gigabyte of email. Since this is so much more email than any other service, this could lead to some increased privacy problems. (Google could search through your archives at any time.) But this doesn't seem to be what people are objecting to, and Google has said they'll try their best to keep your email safe. Analyze your email. This seems to be what people are objecting to. But I don't see what the problem is: Google searches your email for key words, finds ads that match those key words, and shows you the ads. Then it throws all the information it generated away immediately, so no human (other than you) ever sees it. Google doesn't store any information about how many times or to who ads were shown. They don't store any information about what was in your emails. And no human ever goes and looks at your emails. So what's the big deal? How could this possibly cause a problem for anyone? I think the real problem here is that people feel uncomfortable about ads in their email. (I felt a bit uncomfortable at first too.) But to say there's a privacy problem with Gmail's ad system, without spelling out what it is, only capitalizes on people's fears. Sadly, that's exactly what thirty-one privacy and civil liberties organizations have done. Again, if you can explain the problem with Gmail to me, I'll take it back....

Anti-File Sharing Bill Changes Name,
Little Else

Anti-File Sharing Bill Changes Name,
Little Else 06/23/2004 05:34 PM
Last week we wrote about the so-called INDUC E Act, that would outlaw inducing or even counseling someone to infringe on copyrights. The bill was supposed to be introduced last week, but some of the publicity around the leaded version made the sponsors hold back a few days. If you thought they used that time to change the bill, you were wrong. They did change the name, getting rid of the laughable "child exploitation" part in the name, but leaving the actual law the same. The bill is now called, The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA), which must upset those politicians who love bill names that spell out words related to the bill. Either way it's a dreadful and somewhat scary bill that would clearly outlaw file sharing networks, along with VCRs and other methods for infringing copyrights. Unfortunately, it appears to have strong bi-partisan backing, that's looking to rush it through Congress. If it did pass, it would be disastrous for the tech industry which (stupidly) is supporting it in the form of the BSA and the ESA. The RIAA is also thrilled about it. All three are missing out on the fact that they're basically trying to kill off the best distribution system that's ever been handed to them -- one that's been shown to have strong promotional value. It's amazing how badly these industries, with their pocketed politicians are shooting themselves in the foot. This bill would make it impossible to create something like the VCR or TiVo today. It's dangerous, it's stupid and it's going to damage our economy if it passes. Update: TechLawAdvisor points out the fact that "counsels" has been dropped from the bill.

Anti-Spyware Bill Is Back

Anti-Spyware Bill Is Back 01/06/2005 02:38 PM
As was widely expected, Mary Bono has reintro duced her anti-spyware bill to Congress, where it's expected to get approval (as it did last year, before being shut down in the Senate). Clearly, some thought has gone into the bill, and it's not as bad as some previously proposed anti-spyware laws. However, you still have to wonder if it will really help. There will be provisions in the bill that are likely to have unintended consequences, causing problems for some software products. Meanwhile, the nastiest spyware products will remain controlled by criminals who don't care about the law because they don't expect to get caught. I don't think it's the worst thing in the world, but any law should have a provision to keep an eye out for negative unintended consequences and have a way to fix those quickly. There should also be a way to monitor whether or not this actually has an impact. Otherwise, it's just going to get voted into law without any balances to make sure it doesn't do any harm, because who wants to vote in favor of spyware?

Spam Bill Becomes US Law

Spam Bill Becomes US Law 12/16/2003 02:59 PM
Mixed reaction to new spam law passed in US.

Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress

Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress 06/24/2004 04:46 PM

Model Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill

Model Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Esme Vos has uncovered (and has available for download) the model bill for state legislatures to ban municipal broadband: The inestimable Vos has emerged as a firebrand for fighting back the rhetoric of incumbent teleopolies that have put out the meme that there are unfair tax breaks and unfair advantages that a municipal operation has over private enterprise. This ignores the subsidies provided--estimated at over $700 per person in Pennsylvania over the last 10 years of a failed Verizon development plan, non-refundable--and "taxes" that telcos and cable companies are often able to collect for their own coffers. Vos now posts the bill that someone--she'd like to know the individual--wrote to distribute to various legislatures under the guise of competition. Competition means not taking money from taxpayers, charging them by overpriced tariffs defended to the death, collecting and keeping funds intended for rural or impoverished citizens to have universal access, and fighting for the right to squeeze the pipes to prevent interesting competitive services from rising. Competition does mean building neutral infrastructure paid for by access fees that allow all comers to compete on a level playing field to let the market determine the best use of resources. It's strange how businesses that hate regulation in theory love how it supports their business models. Also strange how many folks who claim to want real markets only really want big businesses to be able to dictate to their markets what things cost. I looked at the innards of the Word doc that Esme posted, but the only secret information it contains is about her computer, not any previous computers. On Monday morning, she posted the list of board members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the group behind the model legislation. Update: Sascha Meinrath calls astroturf on three organizations, including ALEC, that are behind anti-municipal telco/cable/telecom service bills, pointing out that their boards' members are mostly made up of folks that more likely have their own companies' interests at heart despite the mission statements....

Lawmaker tones down anti-Gmail bill

Lawmaker tones down anti-Gmail bill 05/25/2004 10:04 PM

Anti-DMCA bill gathers weight

Anti-DMCA bill gathers weight 06/22/2004 07:48 AM

Bush to sign anti-phishing bill

Bush to sign anti-phishing bill 07/15/2004 08:29 AM
Mandatory minumum sentences for ID theft

Anti-spyware bill heads for House

Anti-spyware bill heads for House 06/24/2004 03:05 PM
Measure to keep an eye on spyware takes a step closer to becoming law. Tech industry groups aren't too happy.

SBC Promotes Texas Anti-Wireless Bill

SBC Promotes Texas Anti-Wireless Bill 04/08/2005 12:42 PM

No One Likes California's Anti-Spyware
Bill

No One Likes California's Anti-Spyware
Bill 09/16/2004 09:18 PM
It looks like almost no one is happy with the proposed anti-spyware legislation in California. Companies aren't happy with it because they're afraid it may ban perfectly reasonable applications, while privac y groups say it's worse than no law at all since it's way too narrowly focused. Of course, it sounds like this narrow focus is making some of the companies that originally opposed the bill now view it in a more favorable light.

Anti-Spyware Bill Gets One Step Closer

Anti-Spyware Bill Gets One Step Closer 06/17/2004 07:33 PM
Despite strong lobbying efforts from a number of large tech companies, a House panel has approv ed an anti-spyware bill that would require any software to clearly tell the user that it includes traffic tracking components. It would also prohibit keystroke logging, browser/computer hijacking and ads that can't be closed. While this (of course) won't stop the worst spyware offenders who don't really care about the law, it should slow down the proliferation of annoying and sneaky adware that's almost as bad. It's still unclear which part of the law tech companies are upset with at this point. It does seem to be clearly written to only focus on "bad" spyware.

Conservative group savages anti-P2P bill

Conservative group savages anti-P2P bill 09/24/2004 05:43 PM
Political wrangling over a copyright bill that could imperil some MP3 players heats up in the Senate before a vote next Thursday.

Lawmakers Introduce Anti-Outsourcing
Bill

Lawmakers Introduce Anti-Outsourcing
Bill 03/06/2004 02:01 AM
Lawmakers introduced a bill in Congress Thursday aimed to deter U.S. companies from outsourcing jobs overseas. The Defending American Jobs Act of 2004, sponsored by 50 legislators, proposes to cut federal funding from companies that lay off workers at higher rates in the U.S. than abroad.
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