Adware companies aren’t the only ones fending off lawsuits these days. The FTC ‘s recent charge against the social networking site, Xanga.com, led to a settlement where Xanga.com agreed to the largest penalty ever for allegedly violating the the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in a settlement with the FTC. Xanga.com CEO, John Hiler, [...]

It seems as though 2006 is the year of the adware witch-hunt. With the Adware Industry on the Defensive, we continue to hear news of lawsuits and deceptive practices. While some companies have abaondoned ship for more lucrative and less volatile waters, others have stayed to defend it. One such company is 180Solutions, more commonly [...]

Adware company, 180solutions, has been under fire lately, singled out by the Center for Democracy, which filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the company for “unfair and deceptive practices.” The CDT then issued a report outing 180solutions top advertisers to attempt to shame those advertisers into withdrawing their ad campaigns.When asked about [...]

Legislation prohibiting spyware practices was passed Tuesday by the United States House of Representatives in a 399-1 vote. Termed the Spy Act, this bill not only prevents all things associated with spyware, but it also requires that opt-ins, notices and consents accompany any legal software that collects personal information and data from consumers. Violators of [...]

Google’s newly initiated email service, dubbed Gmail, may face its first piece of opposing legislation from a California senator due to its incorporation of AdWords, reported Reuters Monday. Gmail places advertisements in the personal messages of the emails following a search for keywords. “We are asking [Google] to rethink the whole product,” Sen. Liz Figueroa [...]

Yahoo, America Online, EarthLink Inc., and Microsoft on Wednesday filed lawsuits against hundreds of defendants alleging violations of the new law against mass e-mails known as spam. Four of the Internet´s top companies and Internet Service Providers announced the filing of the suits under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, which went into effect Jan. 1. [...]

This week’s article has been graciously written by Anne Mitchell, Esq., President and CEO, Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy. On January 22, 2003, The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (“ISIPP”) sponsored a conference which provided a forum for the nation’s leading experts on online marketing, spam and the law to explain [...]

Pornographic emails, simply known as “spam” in the Internet community, must now carry a subject line reading “Sexually Explicit Content,” announced the Federal Trade Commission this week. Furthermore, the actual messages must not contain any graphic material. When Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act late last year, its hope was to eradicate unsolicited email; pornography was [...]

On Tuesday President Bush signed the CAN SPAM bill, passed by Congress last month, which issues large fines and even jail time to email marketers who use tricky and misleading methods to con email recipients into purchasing products, viewing pornography, or being scammed by Internet con artists. The bill, dubbed CAN SPAM, will not outlaw [...]

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to punish deceptive spammers and to set up a “do not spam” registry. Internet spammers could face jail time and million-dollar fines under the bill, which passed by a vote of 97 to 0. Similar legislation in the House of Representatives has stalled as lawmakers have tried hammering out differences [...]