Digital + Social

If the first charges brought under Michigan’s so-called child-protection do-not-e-mail law are any indication, the state is casting a far wider net than Utah.

While most consumers have encountered default image suppression in their e-mail boxes, most also know how to turn them on and will do so in e-mail from senders they know and trust, according to a survey released yesterday by e-mail service provider Epsilon Interactive.

If the first charges brought under Michigan

Proving that Utah and Michigan don’t have a monopoly on wacky lawmakers, New Zealand’s commerce select committee has recommended changing the country’s anti-spam bill so its citizens can send unsolicited e-mail and need not stop even if asked by the recipient to do so, as long as the messages are non-commercial, according to a story on Stuff.co.nz.

Poland has added an anti-spam provision in a draft amendment to its telecommunications law, according to TMCnet.

The new regulation would make spamming—which the report did not define—a crime punishable by a fine of up to $32,000.

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Brandon Phillips can tell if you

The San Jose Mercury News last week ran an insufferable article describing how Comcast blacklisted e-mail from the oh-so important members of the online community The WELL.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has introduced a far-reaching privacy bill that could spell deep trouble for any business that uses so-called personally identifiable information for marketing purposes.

Last week, we poked fun at the results of a study claiming that pump-and-dump spammers can make as much as 6% on their investment with each blast.

Turns out our analysis was embarrassingly off the mark. We