Interestingly any email "operator" with fewer than 500 employees or less than $5 billion in annual revenue is exempt, so clearly targeted at the major providers and not self-hosted operators or small hosting companies, thankfully.
The issues on how an email operator is supposed to identify what emails are from a legitimate political campaign isn't covered. The bill also includes reporting requirements broken down by major political parties, so they're supposed to know which party a given message is from as well, also not covered how that determination is to be made. In any case it sounds like it'd be a mess for the major providers to deal with. On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:34 AM Anne Mitchell via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending > legislation in the U.S. that is in committee in both the House and the > Senate right now. It's called the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS > is short for “Bias In Algorithm Sorting”), and it requires that, and I > quote: > > “It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a > filtering algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account > from a political campaign unless the owner or user of the account took > action to apply such a label.” > > It is getting relatively very little press, and of course the chances of > it passing are greater if nobody knows to oppose it. > > We've written an article about it, which includes what to do, whom to > contact and how, etc., and which includes all relevant links, here: > > > https://www.isipp.com/blog/do-you-want-political-email-to-bypass-spam-filters-and-go-directly-to-your-inbox-congress-does-heres-what-to-do/ > > Feel free to share - in fact please do, if this thing passes it's the > camel's nose under the tent. > > Anne > > -- > Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law > CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy > Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) > Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook > Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange > Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School > Prof. Emeritus, Lincoln Law School > Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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