A slidecast about the court case of Facebook against Wallace, and the CAN SPAM Act.

1. Facebook VS Wallace

2. What’s spam ? Best known is e-mail spam: unwanted e-mail messages, mostly commercial Junk mail / commercial e-mail

3. Illegal ornot ? In some jurisdictions illegal, in otherslegal Spammersoutsourcetheiroperations to countrieswhereit’slegal

4. The court case The courtawarded Facebook $711 millionin damages

5. Sanford Wallace Cyber Promotionsis Wallace’scompany Most hated and blacklistedsource of spam in the 90’s Spamford

6. CAN-SPAM Act Itbansfalse and misleadingmarketing e-mails AND extends to spammessages in socialnetworks ( due to the Myspace case )

7. Whatdid Wallace do ? Wallace had sendspam to Facebook users AND hacked some accounts Prosecutionforcriminalcontempt of court

8. Goal of the court case It’s notabout the money ! It’s aboutdiscouragingotherspammers !

9. Other big anti-spam cases ? The Facebook-case is monumental BUT The MySpace-case was even bigger

10. ThéMySpacecourt-case This case set the precedentfor the CAN-SPAM Act $234 million in statutorydamageswas the largestanti-spamsum ever awarded at the time

11. AgainstWho ? Sanford Wallace AND Walter Rines

12. Whatdidthey do this time ? Both Wallace and Rinesstole some passwords AND Massmessagedusershundredthousands of times

13. My opinion Let’s hope spammersget the message, and internet companies keep taking spam seriously !

14. Thanksforlistening, seeyounext time !