May 1, 2017 Last week, Unrollme Inc.’s (“Unroll.me”) privacy policy came under fire from consumers and privacy advocates in response to news that Unroll.me collects and sells data associated with user email messages. Why should website and mobile app providers have a clear and conspicuous privacy policy?
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March 22, 2017 Last week, email marketing lawyers and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a $500,000.00 settlement between the agency and a company offering weight-loss products which were allegedly marketed via email in violation of federal law. The FTC alleged that the defendant corporations (all related) and their respective principal “paid affiliate marketers to
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September 2, 2016 A recent decision in Silverstein v Keynetics, Inc. et al, by a federal judge in the Northern District of California has provided a glimmer of hope to email marketers that the seemingly limitless reach of California’s anti-spam law may finally be abating. In a spam lawsuit ruling that relied heavily on the
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June 20, 2016 Sanford Wallace, a well-known email marketer, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison by a federal judge in California. The sentence follows Wallace’s guilty plea in connection with charges of electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court. What was the nature of the email marketing operation that landed Wallace
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By: David O. Klein and Neil E. Asnen December, 2015 Social media giant LinkedIn Corporation (‘LinkedIn’) recently agreed to settle class action allegations that it violated several federal and state laws by harvesting email addresses from the external contact lists of LinkedIn members, and by sending repeated invitations to join LinkedIn to those addresses. Under
October 6, 2015 Last week, a proposed class action settlement was published detailing the terms under which LinkedIn will settle various claims of “spam”-related violations in connection with its “Add Connections” feature. What were the claims against LinkedIn and what are the terms of settlement?
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We have begun to see an influx of “spam” lawsuits in the Utah federal district courts brought by XMission, L.C. (“XMission”), a Utah-based Internet Service Provider, against advertisers, marketers, and their affiliates, for alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
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March 11, 2015 Last week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (“CRTC” or the “Commission”) issued its first Notice of Violation under Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (“CASL”). Canadian corporate training company compu.finder Inc. (“Compu-Finder”) has received a fine of $1.1 million for allegedly sending email without the recipients’ consent or a properly functioning unsubscribe mechanism. What
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