CAN-SPAM

FTC Begins Cracking Down on Phony Affordable Care Act Marketing

The first Affordable Care Act-related action has been filed by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) against an email marketer and its owner for allegedly violating the CAN-SPAM Act and FTC Act for sending unsolicited commercial email messages to consumers. The Complaint was filed in Florida federal court and alleges that the purpose of the email

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Court Rules that E-mail Addresses Are Protected Personal Data

Previously we informed our readers that California’s new Internet data privacy law, effective January 1st, 2014, requires operators of commercial websites or online services that collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) from California consumers to conspicuously post their privacy policies on their respective websites.  Now, the federal District Court for the Eastern District of California has ruled that consumers’ e-mail

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Proxy Domain Registration May Violate the CAN-SPAM Act

A recent ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Utah points towards a nationwide shift in the interpretation of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (“CAN-SPAM Act”).  The Court ruled that where an unsolicited marketing email message contains a generic proxy registration name (where the registrant’s true

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