Fines as high as $3 million could be imposed for kinds of illegal spam

The U.S. Senate yesterday passed a bill regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail and allowing fines as large as $3 million for some types of illegal spam.

The Senate voted 97-0 to approve the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act yesterday after a compromise among members of the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee allowed an amendment authorizing a federal agency to launch a national do-not-spam registry.

CAN-SPAM would require commercial e-mail to include valid opt-out mechanisms and allows fines of up to $100 per piece of spam sent with misleading header information. Read Article >> Posted by: DTB at 9:45 PM  |  Permalink