Recent successes in the legal world, combined with hints that spam volumes may finally be on the decline, suggest the federal CAN-SPAM law and its state-level counterparts may be having some effect.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Though 25 states have laws regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail, "spam" pushing love potions and new miracle diets keeps showing up in your inbox. Why? Because states rarely ...

And like many other antispam activists, he brought his case before a small-claims judge and eventually won a ruling against the defendant, in this case Sears Roebuck, which was ordered to pay $539 in ...

WASHINGTON--About 70 percent of the world's e-mail messages continue to be spam. But the number is leveling off, which federal officials on Tuesday cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago ...

The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a state antispam law and the 2004 conviction of longtime spammer Jeremy Jaynes, saying the law is an overly broad prohibition on anonymous free speech. The ...

Californians have new ammunition in their fight against spam, thanks to a court decision this week that could make it easier to drop off from unwanted e-mail marketing lists. A California appeals ...

Lawyers say the new federal law targeting unsolicited “junk” e-mail doesn’t have much bite. Called the “Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003,” the law levies ...

WASHINGTON – The chairman of a U.S. Senate committee called for more federal enforcement of a new antispam law amid reports Thursday that the amount of spam sent to U.S. consumers may be rising, not ...

I just read a new white paper from Montreal-based Vircom, developer of Modus secure messaging products, on recent international anti-spam legislation efforts. Entitled, “Can Laws Block Spam?” the ...

This week on Security Levity… spam laws around the world. Many of us know about the U.S. federal law regulating spam, known as the CAN-SPAM Act (or at least we think we do). But what about the laws ...

Christine Gregoire knows she can't win. The attorney general of Washington state has long been at the vanguard in the battle against spammers, and if there's one thing she's learned about her ...