The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, S. 877, was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee today by voice vote. See the following related articles: Senate Panel Overwhelmingly Passes Anti-Spam Bill Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) commentary in June 16, 2003 Legal Times, Can Spam Be Stopped? – “Rather than legislate a quick fix, Congress needs… Continue Reading
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Highly Charged Comments on Copyright Enforcement from Senate Hearing
A tempest is swirling around the prepared and spontaneous statements of Senator Orrin Hatch before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Will Personal and National Security Risks of P2P Networks Compromise the Promise of P2P Networks?” on June 17. See this AP article, Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading… Continue Reading
FTC Conference on E-Commerce and Data Collection
Information Flows: The Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Businesses of The Collection and Use of Consumer Information, June 18, 2003. Panelists will discuss: The use of consumer information in credit transactions; consumer information in customer relationship management and targeted marketing; methodologies for identifying and measuring the costs and benefits of collecting consumer information; and… Continue Reading
Net Profiling and E-Commerce
According to this New York Times article from June 16, Net Profiling Lures Advertisers, “visitors to The Wall Street Journal Online today will become the latest lab rats of online advertising, as the Web site starts grouping them into classes like “car buffs” and “consumer techies,” all the better to serve them ads for Lexus… Continue Reading
Locating and Targeting Consumers Online
Online Locator Software Use Grows: There is growing interest and technology development in identifying online users according to location or geography, called geotargeting or geolocating. Marketing can be targeted to specific zip codes or areas. Although this article states that privacy advocates should not be overly concerned, a range of electronic retailing sectors, including entertainment,… Continue Reading
Presentation on UCITA and UETA
Commercial Law for the New Commerce UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) and UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) (PowerPoint) by Patricia Brumfield Fry, Visiting Professor of Law, Wm. Mitchell College of Law. Continue Reading
Industry Push for Expanded Broadband Deployment
The Man Pushing Faster Internet Access in U.S.: “The United States, where the Internet was invented, now falls behind Japan, Korea and Canada in deploying high-speed Internet access in homes and businesses…Peter K. Pitsch…is the top lobbyist for the Intel Corporation and a coalition of the technology companies in their efforts to press the government… Continue Reading
E-Checks Legislation Approved by House
On June 5, the House approved H.R. 1474 (Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act), “a bill to facilitate check truncation by authorizing substitute checks, to foster innovation in the check collection system without mandating receipt of checks in electronic form, and to improve the overall efficiency of the Nation’s payments system, and for other… Continue Reading
E-Books Still Struggle To Gain Market
E-Books Catch On, but Only for Core Fans So Far is yet another example of similarly titled articles over the years on how e-book have not (and will not) lead to the replacement of hard copy texts in either the professional or consumer markets. Continue Reading
Four States Now Protect Against UCITA
According to ALAWON, the ALA Washington Office Electronic Newsline, on May 29 Vermont Governor Jim Douglas signed HB 148, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA). “This bill included a UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) bomb-shelter provision in its Choice of Law Section. Such bomb-shelter laws have been enacted in four states: Iowa, West Virginia,… Continue Reading
No More Free E-mail Alerts from NYTimes
The New York Times News Tracker Service through which readers may create and schedule the delivery of topic/search specific e-mail, will be migrated from free to fee. The cost: $19.95 per year for tracking ten alerts. However, as noted by Jonathan Dube, Yahoo! Alerts remains free. Continue Reading
More Anti-Spam Legislation
H.R. 2214: To prevent unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Sponsor: Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC), introduced 5/22/2003. This Act may be cited as the “Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003.” Summary from Spam Laws: “The bill would require all commercial e-mail messages to be identified as such (but not with a standard label, except for… Continue Reading
