Computer Crimes: Unrequested Commercial Email and Failure to Cease Email on Request

Delaware makes it a computer crime to send unsolicited bulk commercial email without authorization, to forge email header information to send spam, or to keep sending commercial email after the recipient asks the sender to stop. All commercial email sent to Delaware addresses must explain how to unsubscribe. Note that the federal CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. § 7707(b)) preempts state commercial email rules except those targeting falsity or deception.