spam laws in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Let's see, today in the West we have countries with medieval drinking and shopping laws, archaic media publishing controls, internet gambling bans, porno hysteria, unacceptable clothing control and so on. [07 Aug 2006]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader So you can understand both this publication's hope and depression at recent news the UK government may revise our flawed anti-spam laws - hope that they'll get it right this time around, depression that it's taken so long to come about.silicon.com... [19 Jul 2006]
Opinion: Policing the internet will take more than law
Comment Plans by the Home Office to consult on new laws to make possession of violent pornographic images a crime highlights the dilemma lawmakers face in this interactive and globalised world. As the recent developments in tackling spam prove, getting... [20 Sep 2005]
Leader: Spam laws shame the UK
Leader We wanted to know why the UK's anti-spam laws are so lame and so we asked the DTI just who it consulted with in drafting the laws. Of course they all said spam is a good thing and businesses want to receive unsolicited email. [03 Jun 2005]
Leader: Phone spammers - at least they get 'done'
Leader It's a far less daunting proposition than following a complex string of dead ends through servers on several continents and wrestling with the complexity of laws across various regions in the pursuit of email spammers. [04 Apr 2005]
CRM: Don't forget about privacy
Comment The US regulation avoids blanket legislation but addresses some privacy concerns with focused laws (for instance aimed at the banking sector, or currently, cutting out spam). This is despite Europe's far more protective, pro-consumer data... [13 Oct 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment For them, complying with the different laws in each jurisdiction is costly; they argue that it simply creates a barrier to free trade. On the other hand, democracies have to perform a more delicate balancing act, since they have to weigh the... [05 Aug 2004]
Leader: Microsoft - spam warrior or self-server?
Leader The problem here isn't with Microsoft - it's with the laws under which the transgressor was punished. So does this prove that legislation and prosecution can win the war on spam? The victims here weren't perceived to be the recipients of the... [19 Jul 2004]
Analysis: Politicians botching tech laws
Comment In other words, state and federal laws regulating technology often invoke an even more powerful rule: the law of unintended consequences. But as they say elsewhere, you can't suspend the laws of physics. [12 May 2004]
Leader: Spam wars hotting up
Leader The laws under which the Buffalo Spammer has been convicted relate to identity theft - namely the use of email addresses obtained through illegal means. The battle to conquer spam has taken a number of interesting turns so far this week. [05 Apr 2004]
Leader: Are you the master of your own data?
Leader Understandably, we have strict processes and laws on how physical goods are shipped around the world. And so it is we have data protection laws that seek to let us own what is recorded about us - or at least have fair access to it. [22 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Life without spam
Comment In the UK, we have strict data protection laws, so it pays to look carefully for tiny tick boxes that allow us to opt out of unsolicited mail. It is a pity that in reality most of the spam is based on the assumption that I might be greedy and... [27 Jan 2004]
Spam and data protection: know the law and take precautions
Comment Jo Best looks at the implications of the new 'opt-in' laws for legitimate marketers and gets advice on how to make sure your data doesn't fall into the wrong hands. The writers of the legislation took into account that the rate at which technology... [10 Dec 2003]
Spam laws: "Too little, too late" is too kind
Comment Emails to companies will not be covered by the legislation and so the actual amount of spam covered by the legislation is actually the minority in terms of total spam traffic. Businesses, who are hardest hit by the spam problem, are still lacking... [18 Sep 2003]
Send the bandwidth thieves to the big house
Comment It will be technology, not stricter laws, that wins this battle. With spam accounting for more than 50 per cent of all email traffic companies are losing half their bandwidth to unsolicited email - half their IT investment is being taken out of... [05 Sep 2003]
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