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Information Management Journal, Sep/Oct 2003 by Swartz, Nikki

Stefano Rodota, president of the Italian Data Protection Commission, told the United Kingdom's PC Advisor that even if the U.S. government chooses the opt-out route, American businesses may try to stop spam on their own. "A big part of the business community in the U.S. is moving toward opt-in because [large] firms ... view spam as a threat to their abilities to sell their products over the 'Net," he said.

Already, Microsoft has filed lawsuits against 15 alleged e-mail spammers in the United States and the United Kingdom, accusing them of clogging its and its customers' computers with more than 2 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.

Nikki Swartz is Associate Editor of The Information Management Journal. She may be contacted at nswartz@arma.org.