US porn spam must be labelled
Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:00 EST
The US Federal Trade Commission has ruled that, starting on 15 May, pornographic email must have "Sexually-Explicit" in its subject line. Pornographic spam will have to contain a warning in the subject line so Internet users can easily filter it out, the US Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. Pornographic spam will have to contain a warning in the subject line so Internet users can easily filter it out, the US Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
Outrage over unsolicited pornography and other forms of junk email spurred Congress to pass the first nationwide anti-spam law last year, which required the FTC to develop labels for smut.
An FTC study released last spring found that 17 percent of pornographic offers contained images of nudity that appeared whether a recipient wanted to see them or not.
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