The U.S. Senate Tuesday gave final approval to the CAN SPAM Act, following last weekend’s overwhelming vote on the landmark federal anti-spam bill by the U.S. House of Representatives. If signed into law by President Bush, the legislation would mark the first national attempt to put a crimp on junk mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The bill, which would override all existing state anti-spam laws, puts numerous restrictions on the marketing e-mail messages companies can send to users, levies fines and jail terms for offenders, and instructs the Federal Trade Commission to report to Congress on a plan to create a ‘do-not-spam’ list, one similar to the that recently put into place by the FTC which prevents telemarketers from calling consumers who have added their names and phone numbers to the list.<\/p>\n
Criminal charges are also part and parcel of the CAN SPAM Act, with penalties ranging up to five years in prison for such practices as hacking into another person’s computer with the intent of sending spam from the hijacked machine, falsifying header information in bulk junk mail, and registering five or more e-mail accounts using false information then using those ill-gotten accounts to blow spam onto the Internet.<\/p>\n
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