CAN-SPAM
Regulation
United States (with UK and Canadian equivalents)
· 2003
CAN-SPAM sets the United States rules for commercial email: accurate headers and subject lines, identification as an advertisement, a physical postal address, and a working unsubscribe honoured promptly. Its UK and Canadian counterparts, PECR and CASL, are stricter — both require consent before sending rather than an opportunity to opt out afterwards.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Countries
Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.