Volume I

Issue : 6: September 18, 2003

• Three Privacy Studies Recently Released
• Florida Supreme Court Rules State Employees Are Not Required to Disclose Emails
• Over 27 Million Victims of Identity Theft In The Last Five Years
• CIRA s New Policies and Amendments Effective as of September 25 2003
• UKs Advertising Standard Authority Issues First Spam Decision
• Delivery of Pop up Ads Found to be Legal
• Harvard Publishes UDRP Guide
• U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds City Refusal to Include Link To Publication Critical of City Officials
• U.S. Recording Industry Takes Action Against Individual Users and Announces Amnesty
• U.S. Justice Department Files Injunction to Shut Down RxDepot
• First Case Under Amber Alert Legislation
• Ontario To Use Software to Meet Privacy and Access to Information Laws
• Alberta Court of Appeal Upholds Acquittal of Spammer
• FDA Warns Website Selling Canadian Pharmaceuticals

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First Case Under Amber Alert Legislation

U.S. Attorney James B. Comey recently announced the first prosecution under the new Truth in Domain Names legislation (enacted by the PROTECT Act) designed to prevent the use of misleading domain names to land children on obscene websites. John Zuccarini was charged under subsection (b) of 18 U.S.C. § 2252B, which makes it illegal to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material that is harmful to minors. Mr. Zuccarini would allegedly attract minors to pornographic sites through websites he set up using misspelled names of popular teen and children's sites.

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