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A question came up today about whether placing unsubscribe links behind a login requirement complies with CAN-SPAM. This fairly common implementation choice deserves scrutiny from
Remember when I said that if a product is free, you’re probably the actual product?1 The Texas Attorney General just launched a lawsuit showing how
Last Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission filed a stipulated lawsuit against Verkada, Inc.1 The FTC makes several allegations in its complaint that range
Over the years, I’ve heard many excuses for not sending permission-based emails. One of the more creative excuses came from a sender in the EU
What Happened: On July 17, the judge dismissed the Plaintiff’s case for lack of standing, giving the Plaintiff 21 days to amend the complaint.1 Instead
Since December 2023, nationwide, around a dozen class action lawsuits have been filed in federal district courts alleging violations of the same Arizona statute.1 At
In August 2019, the Tulsi Gabbard campaign (“Tulsi Now, Inc.”) sued Google after Google temporarily suspended the campaign’s Adwords account after the first Democratic Presidential
People will sometimes ask me why I hate the Lead Generation (lead gen) and Payday Loan industries. Ultimately, it’s because they have such deep problems
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced today that they have issued their first penalty against someone for sending email in violation of Canada’s anti-spam
The Lompoc Record is reporting that Jeffery Kilbride has escaped from the minimum security federal lockup. Kilbride was convicted in 2007 of offenses primarily related
