Title: CAUCE: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

URL: http://www.cauce.org/

Date Checked: 12/1/2003      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 12/1/2003

Topics: Commercial Law; Computer Law; Consumer Protection Law; Science And Technology

Other keywords: Spam; E-Mail; Censorship; Telecommunications; Telecommunications Law

Contents: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) is a volunteer-based advocacy group that promotes legislation to ban junk e-mail or “spam.” The CAUCE website describes the organization, offers their perspective on the issue of spam, provides a FAQ and selection of press releases, and documents incidents of spamming. Legal researchers will find of interest the page of resources for Congress members and their staff, and the section on pending legislation. The “Resources for Hill Staff” page contains, in addition to a well-written advocacy piece laying out the organization’s mission, transcripts of CAUCE’s testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and the Federal Trade Commission. The “Pending Legislation” page proffers CAUCE’s analysis of and response to proposed legislation regarding junk e-mail. This page does not, however, link to or reprint the pending legislation.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler