Invasion of privacy v. commercial speech: regulation of spam with a comparative constitutional point of view.

Albany Law Review,  December, 2006  by Huh, Soon Chul

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I. INTRODUCTION

We live in a flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam." (1) The development of the Internet, "an international network of interconnected computers," (2) brings us "electronic mail," (3) which is one of the most powerful and important communicative tools we have ever had in our history. E-mail, like other methods of communication, enhances and reinforces the freedom of speech, which is one of the quintessential values in a free democratic society. Furthermore, it may be a very easy, low-cost, and efficient method for a small ...

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