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Minnesota Spam And Privacy Act Takes Effect

Posted by timothy on from the right-to-be-left-alone dept.

2cv writes "The Minnesota Internet Consumer Information Privacy and Commercial Electronic Mail Solicitation Act takes effect today. An article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press focuses on the spam aspect of the law. However, its chief author admits the measure has no teeth. While not an earth-shattering event, the signing of the bill by former Governor Jesse Ventura did break ground. It was the nation's first online privacy bill. Jesse jokes are welcomed but likely to be modded down as irrelevant."

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  1. Re:What I'd like to know... by Second_Derivative · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are a lot of stupid people in this world. You only need about 50 to respond to a mailing to break even, and many spammers have mailings lists of millions.

    I don't think that's the issue here though. I'm increasingly beginning to think that spammers are just big time trolls. There's loads of people on the internet, yet there's only 200 major spammers. That's not a lot of people. We all know ads are incredibly annoying, and we all know to what lengths these people go to to evade spam filters. Honestly I think these few people just get their jollies by knowing they pissed off a million people today.