Digital IDs: a tool to reduce Spam

I have been writing and speaking about The Future of the Internet for more than eight years — as many of you have. One of the joys of this is the feedback received from all over the world — emails I have much appreciated and from which I have learned a great deal. Never in […]

More on GIP Spam Workshop

The Global Internet Project’s (GIP) workshop: “Spam – Can It Be Stopped?” last week included keynotes by Internet architect Vint Cerf and Orson Swindle, Commissioner at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In attendance were more than 100 participants representing some of the leading experts from government, academia, law, business, and the press. There was […]

Cloudmark’s SpamNet

I wish I had known about Cloudmark on Tuesday at the GIP conference on spam. As I was quoted in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, “this is promising”. CloudMark claims to have over 5,000 users already. They just came out of stealth mode on Wednesday. They also claim to have processed more than 4 million […]

The Global Internet Project

Today, the Global Internet Project convened a workshop in Washington, DC called “Spam: Can It Be Stopped?”. The participants represented some of the leading experts on the subject from government, academia, law, and business. There was strong concensus that spam is a broad and deep problem and it is having significant negative economic and personal […]