{"id":2120,"date":"2004-02-21T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/21\/do-not-call-does-can-spam-cant\/"},"modified":"2004-02-21T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T12:51:09","slug":"do-not-call-does-can-spam-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/21\/do-not-call-does-can-spam-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-Not-Call Does, Can Spam Can&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2725'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spam.gif\" width=\"191\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\"><i>Hiawatha Bray reviews the success of the national do-not-call registry<br \/>\n        and the Can Spam Act. While 74% of the folks who got on the no telemarketing<br \/>\n        list report a decrease in unsolicited sales calls, 71% say the deluge<br \/>\n      of junk email continues unabated, or has increased.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jennifer O&#8217;Shea, press secretary for Senator Conrad Burns, a Montana<br \/>\n          Republican and a sponsor of the antispam law, said the law will begin<br \/>\n          to work once the FTC starts suing spammers. &quot;It does take time for<br \/>\n          cases to be taken up and for people to be prosecuted,&quot; O&#8217;Shea<br \/>\n          said.<\/p>\n<p>          But the FTC official in charge of enforcing the law took a much dimmer<br \/>\n          view. &quot;This law provides some tools that we hope will be helpful,&quot; said<br \/>\n          Howard Beales, director of the FTC&#8217;s bureau of consumer protection, &quot;but<br \/>\n          it&#8217;s not going to make a major difference.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n        from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2004\/02\/21\/survey_finds_do_not_call_list_effective\/\">the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hiawatha Bray reviews the success of the national do-not-call registry and the Can Spam Act. While 74% of the folks who got on the no telemarketing list report a decrease in unsolicited sales calls, 71% say the deluge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/21\/do-not-call-does-can-spam-cant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}