Forum Moderators: phranque
[news.bbc.co.uk...]
Unsolicited spam can be sent to companies, but it must have an opt-out clause inside it. Spam to consumers is banned.Critics of the UK approach say the laws do not go far enough and that the maximum £5,000 fine is not high enough.
But yes, it doesn't go far enough. Spammers should have all equipment used in the spamming confiscated, and face long jail terms.
Nonsense....send 'em to Florida and put 'em in the chair ;)
These are real problems, faced by real people, they need real solutions....not a slap on the hands.
And nothing but an old goat around in a diameter of 50 miles!
The Hague.....they will be tried and sentenced as war criminals.
On that subject....can anyone explain why that guy got 17 years for 7,000 murders today? That is 21 hours per murder....and the EU wonders why the US doesn't take them seriously?
Who do we report to when we get one of these "illegal" spams?
I assume that everyone has the required 1 click opt out of cookies on their site - for me it is called the logout button ;)
[netimperative.com...]
One area that will prove problematic is that of the incentivised viral email campaign - where a recipient is encouraged to circulate the email to friends or colleagues, especially if incentivised to do so. An argument can be made that by incentivising individuals in this way, you would be encouraging individuals to contravene the new Directive, making them lawbreakers themselves.In the same way, when a website prompts an individual to collect data or email addresses on friends or colleagues of the visitor, to enable the website owners to communicate with those individuals, this could count as harvesting. Because the visitor hasn't had the chance to request permission from those contacts, the website would have no right to communicate with them.
Figures vary but AV firms like Sophos and MessageLabs have both warned that between a third to two-thirds of spam is sent from 'hijacked' computers, a factor which makes tracing and prosecuting spammers far more difficult.[theregister.co.uk...]
Bottom line: as long as the sender of spam cannot be tracked, nothing will stop him.
A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner admitted that a complaints form was supposed to be made available on its Web site this morning.Unfortunately, a "technical reason" meant things didn't quite go to plan.
It's hoped a form - which can either be posted or emailed - should be up and running sometime this afternoon. Fingers' crossed.
Incidentally, the Information Commissioner has asked specifically for people not to "forward all your spam to us".
[theregister.co.uk...]
Or, at least, within a generation or two :-)
Castrate them
