At Unspam, we are the leaders in providing governments with do-not-contact registry deployments. In addition to providing the infrastructure for e-mail, fax, mobile phone and instant messenger do-not-contact registries, Unspam assists companies in complying with child protection registry laws. Founded by attorneys and computer scientists, Unspam's approach takes into account both the legal and technological aspects of electronic messaging. Beyond our work with governments, Unspam has the longest-running, most robust e-mail address harvester monitoring network, named Project Honey Pot. Large ISPs currently use Project Honey Pot data to track down the bad guys and keep spam from subscribers' inboxes.

Judge Dale Kimball in the Utah District Court in Salt Lake City today denied the Free Speech Coalition's motion for preliminary injunction against the Utah Child Protection Registry. In so ruling, the judge found the arguments that the registry violated the constitution completely without merit. The so-called Free Speech Coalition, a lobbying group for the pornography industry, sued the State of Utah in order to strike down the Child Protection Registry law. The judge held that the Utah law is not overly burdensome and senders of adult-oriented email and other electronic communications must continue to comply with the law.

The U.S. Department of Justice today filed with the Federal District Court a Statement of Interest on behalf of the United States in the case brought by the pornography industry challenging the Utah Child Protection Registry. The Statement clarified two interpretations of Federal law at issue in the case. First, the United States explains, "[c]ontrary to plaintiff's position, the CAN-SPAM Act does not preempt the Utah Child Protection Registry Act." Second, the United States argues that the Utah Child Protection Act is not a violation of the First Amendment. The United States concludes: "It is a virtue of our federal system that states can ... provide the 'laboratories' for experiments that the federal government is not prepared to implement on a national basis ... The protection of the fundamental right of parents to protect their children from harmful sexually-oriented material is indisputably a worthy goal. At this preliminary stage, plaintiff has not provided the Court with any basis for its request that the Court halt Utah's experiment in its tracks."