Kodak Settles Spam Suit
The FTC reported yesterday that 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.
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 from future violations of the CAN-SPAM act, which states that solicitations must also be identified as advertisements and include a valid postal address.
“This incident, which took place over a year and half ago, was a simple technical malfunction that caused the customary text to be removed from the e-mail,” Kodak spokeswoman Liz Scanlon told Reuters. “We identified the problem, took steps to correct it and are confident it won’t happen again.”
The Kodak Imaging Network lets consumers upload and share digital photographs and buy photo books, cards, coffee mugs and other products.
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