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December 21, 2005
CAN-SPAM Act in Time for the Holidays
Just in time for the Holidays comes the FTC's "Effectiveness and enforcement of the CAN-SPAM Act" report to Congress.
Believe it or not it has been two full years since Can Spam was enacted. Part of the law was a requirement that the FTC issue a report on Can Spam's effect on the spam problem after two years. That time has come.
I' ve been through the report, and without doing a detailed review here, I'll just say that it is mostly what I expected. The FTC points out that in general spam volumes are less now than they were two years ago. They demonstrate the Act's use as an enforcement instrument by pointing to 50 or so legal actions brought under the Act in the past two years. Other than that, a lot of information about the spam problem today and how it continues to be fought.
As for next steps, the FTC basically recommends three thing to further improve the effectiveness of CAN-SPAM:
- Continued development and use of private-sector technology to combat spam
- Support for authentication and other efforts that make it difficult for real spammers to conceal their identity
- Support the US Safe Web Act of 2005 bill to enable the FTC in fighting spam from outside the US.
Enjoy!
Posted by gcrgcr at December 21, 2005 1:14 PM
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