As California seeks a new governor the states permission advocates are hard at work fighting spam. Last week Gov. Davis was presented with an anti-spam bill some consider to be the toughest in the nation. The bill bans unsolicited commercial e-mail unless the sender has a pre-existing business relationship with the recipient and gives recipients the right to sue.

In addition to the spammers, the bill calls for ramifications against advertisers for whom spam is broadcast.

"I suspect this will cause Congress to reconsider the watered-down anti-spam legislation that they are currently considering," said David Kramer, a partner with high-tech law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, CA. Read Article >> Posted by: DTB at 4:53 PM  |  Permalink