A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in U.S. residents’ inboxes. Most ...

WASHINGTON — A year after the U.S. Congress passed the first federal antispam law, observers see no evidence that it has cut the amount of unwanted commercial e-mail arriving in people’s in-boxes.

or some, spam is like ants at a picnic: uninvited, ubiquitous and annoying. For many others, whose uninvited e-mails flood their computer mailbox, it’s an expensive headache. Try as you might, ...

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a $2.9 million settlement with online marketing firm ValueClick this month, it was a record monetary settlement under the 4-year-old CAN-SPAM Act. That ...

From a food truck peddling Hawaiian-Korean fusion dishes in Seattle to an underground Japanese speakeasy in D.C. to a Korean ...

The CAN-SPAM Act [Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing] became law on January 1st of this year, giving the Federal Trade Commission new tools to use against companies ...

It is widely expected that the new Congress and administration will be passing a lot of regulations to deal with all sorts of perceived problems. It may be that the now 5-year-old CAN-SPAM Act is one ...