Category «E-Mail»

Evolving Practices Support Doctor-Patient E-Mail Communications

From today’s WSJ, via Yahoo ($), this article, The Doctor Is Online: Secure Messaging Boosts the Use of Web Consultations, merits review. It addresses the issues of privacy, consultation fees and insurance coverage associated with secure messaging systems options now available for doctor-patient communications. Related news, Creighton University Medical Center doctors using handheld devices to …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Privacy

Essay on Growing Financial Implications of Phishing

From Crypto-Gram: Websites, Passwords, and Consumers. “Criminals follow the money. Today, more and more money is on the Internet. Millions of people manage their bank accounts, PayPal accounts, stock portfolios, or other payment accounts online. It’s a tempting target: if a criminal can gain access to one of these accounts, he can steal money. And …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Mail, Internet, Privacy

Google’s Amended S-1 Discusses GMail, Privacy Issues and Comments

Google Inc · S-1/A · On 8/13/4. See also this press release, dated August 18: Google Inc. Requests Effectiveness of IPO Registration Statement, which includes a link to the updated prospectus. Related reference: from kottke.org, a link of the recent interview with Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and from the Financial Times, Comment: …

Subjects: E-Mail, Government Documents, Privacy, Search Engines

FTC Request Public Comment on CAN-SPAM Regs

FTC press release: “The Federal Trade Commission will publish a Federal Register Notice on Friday, August 13, 2004, seeking public comment on proposed rules regarding commercial electronic mail messages. The CAN-SPAM Act, which took effect January 1, 2004, requires that the Commission issue regulations “defining the relevant criteria to facilitate the determination of the primary …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail

E-mail Privacy Act of 2004

“Representative Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, and three other congressmen introduced the E-mail Privacy Act of 2004 on Thursday. The bill would require that e-mail be subject to federal wiretap law that requires a court order for real-time interception of communications.” [Link]

Subjects: Congress, E-Mail, Legislation

NY AG Settles Case With Spammer

From the press release today: “State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced the settlement of a lawsuit against email marketer Scott Richter and his company, OptInRealBig.com, LLC. The suit alleged that unsolicited emails, or spam, sent on defendants’ behalf contained falsified headers, falsified routing information, and deceptive subject lines, and were illegally routed through a …

Subjects: E-Mail

Massachusetts AG Files First State Lawsuit Under CAN SPAM

From the press release: “In the first state enforcement action taken since the January 1 inception of the federal CAN SPAM Act, AG Reilly is alleging that DC Enterprises, an unincorporated business, and company principal Willliam T. Carson of Weston, Florida, have sent thousands of misleading email messages from a business address in Newton, where …

Subjects: E-Mail