{"id":495,"date":"2003-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/08\/congress-oks-first-national-anti-spam-bill\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:29","slug":"congress-oks-first-national-anti-spam-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/08\/congress-oks-first-national-anti-spam-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress OKs First National Anti-Spam Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House approved slight changes made by the Senate to the CAN-SPAM bill, and President Bush has indicated he&#8217;ll sign the measure into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Monday approved the first national effort to stem a flood of unwanted E-mail pitches offering prescription drugs, cheap loans, and other come-ons.<\/p>\n<p>The House voted without dissent to approve slight changes Senate lawmakers made to the &#8220;can spam&#8221; legislation, which would outlaw the shadiest techniques used by the Internet&#8217;s most prolific E-mailers, who send tens of millions of messages each day.  The last such major legislation was a 1998 law banning Web sites from collecting personal information from children under 13.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-spam bill encourages the Federal Trade Commission to create a do-not-spam list of E-mail addresses and includes penalties for spammers of up to five years in prison in rare circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16600425]http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16600425[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}