Posted on Facebook’s blog yesterday: Today, a San Jose, Calif. court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who accessed people’s accounts without their permission and sent phony Wall posts and messages. While we don’t expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will…
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German court rules against spammers
A German doctor who had previously requested that a company stop sending him email advertisements took the company to court when they continued sending him unwanted email. According to a story in The Local, the doctor had had brief correspondence with the company but then had requested that they stop sending him email. Explaining why…
Dutch spam suspect fined €250K
Dutch telecoms regulators have fined a junk email spammer €250,000. Reinier Schenkhuizen was ordered to pay €250,000 by local regulator OPTA. Of this, €150,000 was for distributing junk emails and €100,000 for failing to create a means for recipients to unsubscribe to unwanted messages, according to local reports. OPTA alleges that Schenkhuizen was a “persistent…
Consumer activism produces results: iDrive Lite
It started with a situation described on The Consumerist: Don’t install the iPhone app iDrive Lite if you value the privacy of your contact list. Avi Muchnick, one of the developers behind the free, consumer-friendly online graphics suite Aviary, used iDrive to backup his Gmail contact list when switching to a new phone. The next…