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Google Resurrects Its Verified Political Sender Program
Remember Google's program to verify US political senders? (Which Jennifer Nespola Lantz covered for Spam Resource back in 2022, see here...
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RNC v. Google Ninth Circuit appeal fails
Eric Goldman, writing for his Technology & Marketing Law Blog, has just shared an update in the RNC v. Google saga , this time the Ninth...
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FTC: Gmail spam filters are partisan
Right-leaning political groups in the US have long accused Gmail of unfair left-leaning bias when it comes to spam filtering. As an example,...
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RNC v. Google: A Google win, but a terrible ruling
As reported by Reuters and many others: "A U.S. judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit accusing Alphabet's G...
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ICYMI: Valimail and NGP VAN deliverability webinar recap
In case you weren't able to check out the Valimail/NGP VAN webinar last week focusing on "Increasing Deliverability in the Politica...
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Eric Goldman: RNC v. Google and Section 230
Eric Goldman is Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute, at Santa Clara University. And he blo...
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More analysis on the RNC spam lawsuit against Google
Mike Masnick from Techdirt's got a scathing breakdown of how the judge just wasn't buying what the RNC was selling ; derisively deta...
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RNC vs Google: Republicans lose this round
Remember that the RNC had sued Google , alleging that RNC emails were being unfairly dropped into Gmail spam folders due to political animu...
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Pelosi campaign settles with Illinois man over SMS spam
Are political messages exempt from the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act? As the FCC explains , while campaigns are exem...
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Report that political spam! Don't just hit delete.
Do you receive political spam? Political spam happens in the US, seemingly regardless of party, but it is not something universally engaged ...
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Google hires law firm Perkins Coie to fight RNC's spam filter lawsuit
Mike Scarcella, reporting for Reuters : Google has hired law firm Perkins Coie to help defend it against the RNC's spam filtering lawsui...
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Will Easton: What's going on with all the political fundraising spam?
Will Easton is an expert email strategist and nonprofit fundraiser, and the webmaster of ethicalemail.org and you should connect with him o...
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Jennifer Nespola Lantz: Gmail Political Pilot Program: Sometimes it feels good to be wrong
Today's guest post comes from my Kickbox colleague, Jennifer Nespola Lantz . Don't forget to check out her posts over on the Kickbox...
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Jennifer Nespola Lantz: Gmail “Political Pass for Messaging” Program
Today’s guest post comes from my colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz, VP of Industry Relations and Deliverability at Kickbox, keeping us update...
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Terms of Service: From anti-spam to content takedown
On Sunday, Gartner's Lydia Leong posted an excellent backgrounder on how the internet industry came to have mostly common acceptable u...
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Gmail spam filters don't know what party you represent
I don't think there's actually a conspiracy to block the political email messages of any certain party. I see no clear data suggesti...
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ISPs do filter political mail
Need proof? It's all right here, in this Markup analysis of how Gmail is handling email messages from various 2020 US presidential candi...
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Google: No favors at Gmail
Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign is suing Google for various reasons, primarily for suspending her Google Adwords account. Not real...
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Report: ‘Trump’ most common spam term during run-up to elections
What was the most common term in spam in the run-up to the mid-term elections? "Trump," says Proofpoint .
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AOL User Mike Pence
I usually try to avoid getting too political around these parts, but this one I just can't resist. Turns out, then-Indiana governor Mike...