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An essential component of an effective intranet is a powerful, versatile and user friendly search engine. This article focuses on enterprise-wide deployment of Google for this function, and what portends to be the growth in marketing this successful search product.
Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich signed the Maryland Spam Deterrence Act (HB 1320), which “prohibits a person from sending multiple commercial electronic mail (e-mail) messages under specified circumstances from a protected computer. Violators are subject to criminal and civil liability.”
From ZDNet: “The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that takes aim at Google’s new Gmail service, placing strict limits on e-mail providers seeking to scan customer messages for advertising and other purposes.” See SB 1822. See also Google Responds To Email Privacy Concerns
On May 25, California State Senator Liz Figueroa offered an amended version of SB 1822 which struck language that would have presented substantial obstacles to Gmail’s operation in the state.
Gartner Study Finds Significant Increase in E-Mail Phishing Attacks: “Phishing attacks by hackers against online consumers have become so widespread that an estimated 57 million Americans likely have received these fraudulent e-mails, according to a new study released today by Gartner, Inc. Direct losses from identity theft fraud against these phishing attack victims cost U.S. …
An online survey conducted in April indicates “that 75% of accountholders are less likely to respond to email from their banks, and over 65% said they were less likely to sign-up or continue to use their banks online services.” These results reflect growing consumer concern with phishing and email fraud, occurrences of which are increasingly …
Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam For reference, see the latest spam statistics on the MessageLabs homepage.
From the text of a May 3 letter sent by EPIC, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the World Privacy Forum, to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer: “We write to urge your office to investigate Google’s “Gmail” service. We believe that Gmail violates California Penal Code § 631, which governs eavesdropping on confidential communications. In light …
FTC press release: “The FTC has cracked down on two spam operations that have clogged the Internet with millions of deceptive messages and violated federal laws…Both operations have been identified by the anti-spam organization Spamhaus as among the largest spammers in the world.” Complaint: Federal Trade Commission, plaintiff, v. Phoenix Avatar, LLC doing business as …
FTC Working to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Information Security Breaches Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Our Nation’s Cyberspace, Presented by Commissioner Orson Swindle Before the Subcommittee On Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census of the Committee On Government Reform, United States House of Representatives (April 21, 2004). FTC …
Huge Surge In Phishing Scams As Fraudsters Seek Financial Gain This link on Antiphishing.org: “Earthlink ToolbarFeaturing ScamBlocker EarthLink ScamBlocker is part of a free browser toolbar that alerts you before you visit a page that’s on Earthlink’s list of known fraudulent phisher Web sites. Its free to all Internet users.” [Download]
The CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers “The law, which became effective January 1, 2004, covers email whose primary purpose is advertising or promoting a commercial product or service, including content on a Web site. A “transactional or relationship message” email that facilitates an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business …
