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InternetNews December 23, 2003 Pamela Parker	Do-Not-Spam Proves Popular Concept The majority of Americans would sign up for a do-not-spam list were the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch one, a new study has found.
AFP eWire February 23, 2004	Do-Not-Call List Wins in Court A major challenge to the legality of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) National Do-Not-Call Registry was rejected by a federal court last week, leaving the list in place and operational.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Do-Not-Spam List Great For Spammers After a six-month study, the FTC updates Congress on the National Do Not E-Mail registry. Hint: It's not a good thing.
Registered Rep. August 5, 2003 Will Leitch	Feds Set Price on DNC List The Federal Trade Commission has set a price for its vaunted "Do-Not-Call" list -- a list of numbers signed up to avoid sales calls from telemarketers and uninvited reps -- and it's a steep one: More than $7,000.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC to Congress: Lose the Anti-Spyware Plans The Federal Trade Commission again warned Congress today that anti-spyware legislation is unnecessary with the existence of adequate fraud laws to contend with spyware perpetrators.
AFP eWire	U.S. Do-Not-Call List Now Permanent Phone numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) national Do-Not-Call List will remain there permanently unless voluntarily removed under a bill signed into law recently by President Bush.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Proposes Adult Spam Labels A subject-line requirement for sexually explicit e-mail is the first of several FTC mandates under new Can Spam Act.
AFP eWire October 1, 2007	Making the Do-Not-Call List Permanent? With many telephone numbers about to drop off the national do-not-call list, Congress has introduced legislation to make enrollment on the registry permanent.
InternetNews July 6, 2004 Jim Wagner	Spam-Fighting Triumvirate Formed The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia fight the big fight against the proliferation of spam.
InternetNews December 20, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC: CAN-SPAM Is Working With a big helping hand from technology, the Federal Trade Commission say spam volume is declining. But are spammers staying away?
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
InternetNews March 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
InternetNews April 6, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	New Bill Looks to Clamp Down on Mobile Spam Legislation seeks to curtail unsolicited text messages by broadening scope of CAN-SPAM Act and Do-Not-Call registry.
InternetNews May 7, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Q&A: Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner A key public policy official discusses spam, RFID and the need to modernize the patent process.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2004 Rich Smith	No, Seriously: Do Not Call! The FCC fines two telecoms to get its message across.
InternetNews June 27, 2007 Roy Mark	FTC Report Cautions Against Network Neutrality Laws The FCC concludes that existing laws and market conditions suggest new network discrimination rules are unnecessary.
Inc. July 1, 2003 Matthew Fogel	You Know My Name (Don't Call My #) No more telemarketers? Don't be so sure.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Closing CAN-SPAM Loopholes Spam-fighting feds figure out the fine points of anti-spam law.
InternetNews July 27, 2007 Ray Everett-Church	Spam: You've Come a Long Way, Baby A report on the recent FTC 'Spam Summit,' and a look back at a similar event 10 years ago.
AFP eWire July 19, 2004	Despite Public Support, FTC Nixes Do-Not-Email List Some charities were preparing for a policy battle to convince the FTC to exempt charities from a do-not-email registry. However, a recent decision has made such preparations moot and left the private sector to address the issue.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Douglas MacMillan	The FTC Takes on the Spam Dispensers The FTC's David Vladeck is fighting Twitter, Facebook, and other Web titans to hunt spammers, spyware, and identity thieves.
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.
CIO June 1, 2004 Alice Dragoon	How the FTC Rescued the Dinner Hour Despite tight deadlines and a court ruling that temporarily shut it down, the Do Not Call Registry turned out to be one of the most successful IT projects in the history of government.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Dayana Yochim	Silence the Sales Pitches There's no blanket "Do Not Disturb" sign that will thwart every marketer. But with a little legwork you can hit the kill switch on the majority of pre-screened credit card sales pitches. Here's how.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
InternetNews May 20, 2004 Janis Mara	CAN-SPAM Gets Mixed Reviews in Senate Testimony Five months on, the anti-spam measure is far from an unqualified success.
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Targets Zombie Spammers The Federal Trade Commission launched a new anti-spam campaign today targeting hijacked, or zombie, computers.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Catherine Pickavet	Spammers Settle With FTC Two more large-scale spammers have settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that they sent commercial e-mails in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act.
PC World April 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Wars Rage The new federal antispam law doesn't seem to be working. Will anything stop the e-mail onslaught?
AFP eWire January 20, 2004	Anti-Spam Law Expected to Have Little Impact on Charities While some questions remain regarding its implementation, the Can-Spam bill (S. 877) signed by President Bush late last year should have little impact on most charities.
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.
InternetNews May 17, 2005 Roy Mark	Swindle: 'Somebody Has Got to Pay' The Federal Trade Commission says corporate boards haven't been paying enough attention to data protection.
Search Engine Watch October 4, 1999	FTC Steps In To Stop Spamming There's a new sheriff in town, with the initials FTC. In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results.
PC World August 2004 Liane Cassavoy	Three Minutes: The So-Called Spam King Sounds Off Although he's been called the Spam King, been labeled one of the most prolific spammers in the world by Spamhaus's Registry of Known Spam Operations, and been sued for spamming, Scott Richter calls his business electronic marketing
CFO November 1, 2003 Esther Shein	Do Not Call Waiting Is "do not call" good news for the U.S. Postal Service?
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews November 6, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Slaps Spammer With Record Fine The Federal Trade Commission Thursday hit Internet marketer Jumpstart Technologies with a $900,000 civil fine for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty to date for a violation of the two-year-old law.
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Wants to Nix Netflix 'Opt-Out' Terms The Federal Trade Commission is opposing a proposed class action settlement agreement between Netflix and consumers, claiming the deal appears to unfairly favor the online movie DVD rental outfit.
InternetNews January 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Bogus Spyware Vendors Settle FTC Charges The Federal Trade Commission slaps almost $2 million in fines on firms selling software that did not remove spyware as advertised.
Insurance & Technology October 29, 2003 Katherine Burger	Telephone Tag Considering how long it takes to accomplish much of anything in Congress, it was impressive how quickly our elected officials reacted last month to the legal back-and-forth regarding the national Do Not Call Registry.
InternetNews April 19, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Calls for International Anti-Spam Efforts The Federal Trade Commission joined 29 other countries today in calling for increased cooperation between nations in combating spam.
InternetNews July 22, 2010	FTC, Intel Talks Stretched Two More Weeks The deadline for Intel and the FTC to come to a settlement is tomorrow, but since they aren't ready to settle or go to court, it seems, the two sides have extended the deadline by two weeks.
AFP eWire June 21, 2004	New Canadian Telemarketing Rules Will Impact Charities The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued new regulations that impose additional requirements and disclosures for charities engaged in telemarketing, as well as for those for-profit organizations working on behalf of a charity.
InternetNews February 10, 2006 Roy Mark	What's Next For The FTC And Net Threats? The Federal Trade Commission plans hearings some time this fall to ponder the next generation of consumer high-tech threats in the virtual marketplace.
InternetNews January 30, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Launches International Anti-Spam Campaign New effort focuses on convincing business and organizations worldwide to close open proxies and relays.
PC World January 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Laws: Bark or Bite? New antispam efforts aren't expected to end the scourge.
AFP eWire August 7, 2006	Do-Not-Call List to Apply to Political Calls? Congressman John Doolittle (R-Calif.) has introduced legislation that would expand the national Do-Not-Call List to include political calls, including those involving political fundraising.
InternetNews May 12, 2005 Roy Mark	New Bill Targets Spyware Profits U.S. Senator George Allen says the federal government already has authority to prosecute spyware purveyors.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Merchants Unwittingly Disclose Consumer Data CartManager International, a provider of shopping cart software, collected the personal data of nearly one million people and turned around and rented the data without their consent to marketers. The company reached a settlement with the FTC.