Kodak Pays Penalty For Email Non-Compliance In Spam Case

A digital photo-sharing service run by Eastman Kodak Co. settled charges it sent e-mails to 2 million recipients and failed to give them a way to opt out of future messages, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. Kodak Imaging Network, previously known as Ofoto Inc., agreed to pay a $26,331 penalty for violating a U.S. law aimed at curbing spam.

The FTC said it imposed the penalty to recoup the total gross proceeds from the e-mail campaign and barred Kodak (Research) from future violations. U.S. law bars false or misleading headers on e-mails and requires commercial e-mailers to give recipients the option to not receive further solicitations. Solicitations must also be identified as advertisements and include a valid postal address under the CAN-SPAM Act.

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