CAUCE NORTH AMERICA NEWS, Vol 10, No 1, May 2008
John Levine
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CAUCE NORTH AMERICA NEWS
Volume 10, Number 1
May 2008
In this issue:
* New Canadian spam bill
* New US state spam laws
* CAUCE joins in anti-spyware amicus brief
* CAUCE on the go
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* New Canadian spam bill
We were pleasantly surprised to read Canadian Senate bill S-235,
introduced by Senator Yoine Goldstein on May 7th. It would establish
an opt-in rule for commercial e-mail, with penalties for sending
commercial mail to people who hadn't opted in, for address harvesting,
and for phishing. This is by far the best anti-spam bill introduced
into a North American legislature in many years, and we look forward
to working with the Senator and our friends in Parliament to move it
forward.
Text of the bill:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/Senate/Bills/392/public/pdf/s-235_1.pdf
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* New US state spam law
Although CAN SPAM overrides most state spam laws, it does allow states
to add penalties for fraudulent e-mail.
In April the governor of Colorado signed a new anti-spam law into
effect. CAN SPAM draws a tight line around what states can do, so this
law is mostly interesting for the way that it pushes as firmly against
that line as it can.
CAUCE board member John Levine commented on the law in his blog:
http://weblog.johnlevine.com/2008/04/30
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* CAUCE joins in anti-spyware amicus brief
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed on April 30th, CAUCE joined the
Center for Democracy and Technology to argue that anti-spyware vendors
should be protected by the liability protections afforded other
filtering companies under the Communications Decency Act. CAUCE joined
a broad spectrum of Internet and technology industry groups, public
interest organizations, civil liberties groups and individual
companies that are all committed to the proposition that users should
be empowered to control their own Internet experiences. The brief
urges the court to protect anti-spyware vendors from liability in
cases brought to intimidate anti-spyware vendors into ignoring
spyware.
Text of brief: http://www.cdt.org/privacy/spyware/20080505amicus.pdf
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* CAUCE on the go
CAUCE board members Neil Schwartzman, J.D. Falk, and John Levine
attended recent meetings of the Internet Engineering Task Force
in Vancouver BC (Neil), and Philadelphia PA (all three). At those
meetings they participated in work on mail authentication, notably
DKIM signature technology. While authentication won't do anything
directly to stop spam, it's a key component in making senders
responsible for the mail they send, a prerequisite to taking effective
action against senders of unwanted mail.
Neil also attended the Internet Governance Forum meeting in Brazil in
November, working in the areas of security and privacy, and
participated in the Stop Spam Alliance panel. CAUCE NA is a member of
this latter organization.
Information on DKIM: http://www.dkim.org
The IETF: http://www.ietf.org
The IGF: http://www.intgovforum.org
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About CAUCE
CAUCE North America (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email,
http://www.cauce.org) is the world's largest Internet-based advocacy
organization, with tens of thousands of members across the United
States and Canada, and supporters across the world. It supports and
works toward passage of legislation prohibiting unsolicited e-mail
advertisements. CAUCE is a not for profit association with 501(c)(6)
status in the United States.
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