Colorado Governor Signs Anti-Spam Bill
Apr 26, 2008 3:37 PM, By Ken Magill
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter last week signed an anti-spam bill into law apparently aiming to give Internet service providers and the state’s attorney general a stronger weapon in the fight against spam while staying within the confines of the preemption provisions in the Can Spam Act of 2003. ...

Online Retailer Agrees to Protect Consumer Data
Apr 20, 2008 5:34 PM
An online seller of environmentally friendly clothing has agreed to clean up its act when protecting consumer data. Life Is Good Inc. signed a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission, and it was approved by the commission last week by a 4-0 vote after a 30-day comment period. ...

Man Pleads Guilty to 'Botnet' ID Theft: FBI
Apr 20, 2008 5:21 PM
In the first case of its kind in the U.S., a man pleaded guilty last week to federal charges stemming from his use of “botnets”-armies of compromised computers-to steal people’s identities by extracting information from their personal computers and intercepting their e-mails, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced last week. ...

E360’s Linhardt Vows to Appeal Comcast Ruling
Apr 15, 2008 2:11 PM, By Ken Magill
E360 Insight’s CEO Dave Linhardt said he will appeal the decision rendered against him last week in his lawsuit against Comcast. ...

What the e360 Decision Means to You
Apr 15, 2008 2:07 PM, By Ken Magill
If there is one message American marketers should take away from last week’s court ruling against e-mail marketer e360 Insight, it’s this: Rightly or wrongly, simply being Can Spam compliant is not enough to get e-mail delivered. ...

E360 Loses Suit Against Comcast
Apr 14, 2008 6:05 AM, By Ken Magill
e360 Insight last week suffered a serious setback in its ongoing legal battles to force ISPs to deliver its e-mail when a judge dismissed the marketing firm’s lawsuit against Comcast. ...

Reported Online Fraud Losses Soar; E-mail Tops Tactics: FBI
Apr 8, 2008 11:54 AM, By Ken Magill
One would hope that by now people would have started getting wise to e-mail scams. But then, one would be wrong. E-mail was by far the most-used vehicle perpetrators of online crime used to contact victims in 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported last week. ...

Reported Internet Fraud Soars in 2007: FBI
Apr 7, 2008 8:08 AM, By Ken Magill
Americans reported $240 million in online fraud losses in 2007 to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an increase of $40 million from 2006, according to the FBI’s National White Collar Crime Center. ...

Britain Imposes Internet Media Regulations
Apr 7, 2008 8:05 AM, By Jim Emerson
Big changes are afoot concerning advertising and marketing regulations in the United Kingdom, including some associated with e-mail, blogs and social networking Web sites. ...

Stunner: FTC Loses Affiliate Marketing Case
Mar 26, 2008 8:08 AM, By Ken Magill
A jury in Seattle Monday ruled that a pornography marketer was not responsible for spam sent by some affiliates, handing the Federal Trade Commission a stunning defeat. ...