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Electronic Communication
E-Mails are Signed Writings (yawn)
Although it should hardly be considered to be news anymore, an appellate court in New York has ruled that a series of e-mails constituted “signed writings” within the meaning on New York’s Statute of Frauds. Consequently, they could be used to modify an employment agreement which provided that all modifications had to be signed by the parties. […]
Tagged authenticate, contracts, email, modification, signed writing
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Newsflash: “ISPs Have Control Over Their Subscribers.” And the Point Is?
Talk about a slow news day. A recent article in USA Today discusses the so-called “fine print” in ISP contracts and then concludes that it doesn’t really matter anyway. This non-story highlights the fact that ISP contracts, which their company lawyers draft, give ISPs rights to read their subscribers’ e-mail, block their subscribers from accessing certain […]
Money and Handcuffs: Will Anything Stop Spam?
The short answer: No. Spam will continue to be one of the internet’s most enduring problems. But it’s always nice to see a few small victories here and there. Sanford Wallace, who earned the ignominious title of “Spam King,” is in the news once again. It seems that Mr. Wallace, in his infinite wisdom, decided to […]
Tagged China, Edward Davidson, email, Russia, Sanford Wallace, spam
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No Good Deed . . . .
It’s always refreshing to see companies take affirmative steps to try and protect users from malicious programs that can be inadvertently downloaded onto their computers. Yahoo and McAfee are joining forces to unveil a new security feature designed to warn Yahoo users about potentially dangerous links to software such as adware, spyware, keystroke loggers, and other malicious programs. […]
Tagged adware, criminals, email, hackers, keystroke loggers, malicious programs, malware, realtime blackhole list, security, spam, spyware, technology law
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Hitting that “Send Button” at Work
According to a new survey by Forrester Research, 41% of large companies (those having at least 20,000 employees) either read or analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. They’re either paying other employees to read them or presumably using any number of commercially available software programs to analyze them. 44% of the companies surveyed investigated a confidential data breach involving e-mail in […]
Tagged email, employee, employer, employment, monitor, privacy, security, surveillance
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A King Without His Treasure
Just a quick follow-up to a post I wrote a few weeks ago about “Spam King” Sanford Wallace. Wallace had been defaulted by a federal district court in California in a suit brought by MySpace for running a spamming and phishing scam on the site. The court recently awarded MySpace $230 million against Wallace in what is […]
Tagged email, MySpace, phishing, Sanford Wallace, spam
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