Mich., by adopting a do-not-spam list of children’s e-mail addres...
Mich., by adopting a do-not-spam list of children’s e-mail addresses, has landed in a trap the FTC dodged last year when it rejected a similar idea, said Edward Felten. The Princeton U. computer scientist was a consultant to the…
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FTC on the matter. “What bothered the FTC (and should have bothered Michigan) about this issue is the possibility that unscrupulous e-mailers will use the list as a source of addresses to target for spam,” Felten said in a blog posting. Mich.’s system lets e-mailers turn the spam blacklist into a solicitation list simply by checking which addresses they submit to the state for “scrubbing” are eliminated because they're on the do-not-spam list, he said. State law bars soliciting children on the list to buy anything they're too young to buy legally. The registry started July 1 and compliance must start Aug. 1.