Spam, Phishing, Spyware, and VOIP

Law of eCommerce

October 6, 2008

Copyright, Peter Vogel, 2004-08

“Spam”

spamlaws.com

http://www.spamlaws.com/state/summary.shtml

http://www.spamlaws.com/state/tx.shtml

Spammers convicted; first felony case

CAN-SPAM

FTC

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

OnGuardOnline.gov

http://www.ftc.gov/reports/dneregistry/report.pdf

Email Authentication Summit

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/inbox.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/10/datasecwksp.shtm

Honeypots

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Goodmail

Rpost

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

JupiterResearch

hotmail

aol

AOL Legal Department

Postini

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/05/ofotokodak.htm

Phishing

September 1, 2005 New Texas Laws

• HB 1098 Anti-Phishing Act– Civil Relief

• SB 122 Identity Theft Enforcement & Protection Act – Civil penalty from $2K to $50K for each

violation– Allows for individuals to file court declarations

about being a victim

• SB 327 Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act– Maximum penalty to state $100K

Chapter 48 Business & Commerce Code

OnGuardOnline.gov

Anti-Phishing Working Group

http://www.spamlaws.com/spyware.html

Spyware

FTC- Spyware

WashingtonPost.com

WashingtonPost.com

FCC- VOIP

Vonage

Skype