Virginia passes tough new spam law

May 4, 2003 - Privacy News

Many states have enacted anti-spam laws, but Virginia has just enacted the toughest anti-spam law in the nation. The law would send spammers to prison for up to five years. The felony provisions apply when the sender 1) intends to change header or other routing information so that recipients can't tell who actually sent them the message, and 2) when the sender sends more than 10,000 email messages in a 24 hour period, or 100,000 messages in a 30 day period, or when the revenue generated is $1,000 for a specific transmission, or $50,000 for total transmissions.

More information is available at <http://www.governor.state.va.us/Press_Policy/Releases/2003/Apr03/0429b.htm>.

Last updated May 5, 2003