Vendor liability in US spam law proposal
Good presentation by Anne Mitchell, ex-Habeas CEO, now of ISIPP — ‘False Positives: the Baby in the Bathwater’ and ‘Putting the Responsibility for Spam where it Belongs: The Case for Vendor Liability’ (PDF, 317KiB). Note this bit:
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In June of 2003, ISIPP’s Anne Mitchell worked closely with Senator John McCain’s office to help develop and draft legislation which would hold vendors liable for advertising in spam.
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This legislative draft was introduced as an amendment to the Burns-Wyden CAN-SPAM Act, and adopted by committee as part of the bill. Vendor liability is now part of the Burns-Wyden bill.
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The proposed legislation makes liable any vendor who advertises in spam which violates the general provisions of the law.
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Exceptions are made if the vendor truly did not know, and could not have been reasonably expected to know, that their information would go out in spam.
That could be interesting.
Tags: bill, ex, isipp, legislation, liability, part, presentation, spam, vendor, wyden
Best Headline Ever
Entertainment - AP TV: Shatner’s Ex-Wife Sues Over Horse Semen.
Thanks to Ben for pointing out that one.
Iraqwar.ru Redux
Did Russians Use Blog To Aid Iraq? Some slightly paranoid theories, IMO. Interesting to note, though, that Stratfor reckons it was written by GRU (or ex-GRU) staff.
The bottom line of the article, more or less, is that it was written by some ex-GRU people who possibly wanted to help the Iraqis, who indirectly received the intelligence from folks still employed by the agency.
Interesting snippet:
Denisov said ‘a high-level source’ told him that sensitive information being promulgated in the Russian media, Iraqwar.ru included, was one … item on the agenda during Bush national security advisor Condoleezza Rice’s meeting the day before at the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.
Tags: aid, article, blog, ex, gru, imo, line, staff, stratfor, use
