Posts tagged with 'm-spam act'
US Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) want to make unsolicited commercial text messages illegal. They have introduced legislation they're calling the m-SPAM Act of 2009 to put the brakes on mobile spam.
The proposed legislation would strengthen the powers given to the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to curb
unwanted text messages. Additionally, it would flat out prohibit sending text messages to mobile numbers on the Do-Not-Call registry.
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by Rebecca Lieb
06 April 2009 17:47pm
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