The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it has made progress on refining the admittedly vague CAN-SPAM Act, which Congress passed last year in an attempt to spare citizens from the surge of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
The complaining and fault-finding began as Congress debated anti-spam laws and continued unabated after the enactment of CAN-SPAM on Jan. 1, 2004. Spam fighters argued there were too many loopholes, while marketers complained that the law was too vague and could cover the most innocent and welcome of electronic missives.
“It’s far broader than what people think of as spam,” admitted Lisa Rosenthal, an attorney with the FTC. “It covers all commercial messages.”
Rosenthal was speaking at the Second Annual Spam and the Law Conference, held in Millbrae, Calif., on Friday.
Source: Internet News
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