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Spread the Word – Help end SPAM and Junk Mail
Junk mail and SPAM has taken over our lives. The Privacy Council is an organization dedicated to removing unsolicited junk mail, email and phone calls from our society.
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Remembering Megan Meier – When MySpace Privacy Goes Wrong
The recent case of the St. Louis mom Lori Drew posing as a boy and ridiculing 13 year-old Megan Meier is obviously horrible. Drew created a fake MySpace profile and then told the emotional 13 year old girl that “the world would be better without her..”
It resulted in the girl hanging herself, and a large [...]
CARU- Children’s Advertising Review Unit
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) was formed by the National Advertising review Council (NARC) in 1974. CARU is a self-regulated program that promotes responsible children’s advertising.
CARU’s basic activities are the review and evaluation of child-directed advertising in all media, and online privacy practices as they affect children. When these are found to be [...]
Junk Mail- How Many Trees Are Killed Each Year?
About 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail (that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months), of which 44% is thrown in the trash before it is even opened. The average person receives about 1.5 personal letters each week and about 10.8 pieces [...]
Top 10 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Online Privacy
1. Online privacy is not monitored by the government. The industry has asserted that self regulations are the most efficient and effective means of creating online privacy protection.
2. You should make your information practices available to visitors in a prominent place on you websites home page. The notice about information practices on your website should [...]
CAN-SPAM Updates
On May 12, 2008 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an approved set of final rules modifying the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 after three years of considering feedback from industry participants. The FTC’s long awaited final rule provides marketers with a set of regulations that address some of CAN-SPAM’s biggest challenges. The regulations also align [...]
Privacy Management Services
The information new technologies give will allow tracking of a lot of your personal, private information. One way to stop this is to use services that protect you from having your privacy invaded. The Federal Government launched a national Do Not Call List in 2003. This list allows people to take their home and [...]
CAN-SPAM: Overview and 10 Things Every Marketer Should Know
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was signed into law on December 16, 2003. It is the first national standard for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce its provisions. The acronym CAN-SPAM derives from the bill’s full name “Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act” of [...]
