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EU Members Ignore Spam Directive
News The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July 2003, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published by the Institute of Information Law (IvIR) at the InfoSecurity...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
Mobile Operators Denounce Spam
News However, we have to explain it and clarify that this directive will not end spam because it will still keep on coming from the US and Asia," Henricson said. Niklas Henricson, a GSME MCommerce Working Group delegate, told silicon.com that Article 13...
[July 24, 2003, 8:56]
Court Victory In The Fight Against Spam
News The decision, which comes three years after the European Union passed the directive on privacy and telecommunication, is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in a European court.
[December 28, 2005, 12:20]
UK Government Urged To Give Spam The Boot
News This plan -- under which people will still need to opt out of receiving spam emails and SMSs from companies they have an existing relationship with -- is the British government's preferred way of implementing the EU directive on Privacy and...
[June 10, 2003, 16:33]
EC Calls For Concerted Fight Against Spam
News The ePrivacy Directive contains a ban on spam, but implementation is still "a problem" in most EU member states. In the UK, the Information Commissioner — which must enforce the directive — has warned that it doesn't have enough power to fight...
[November 28, 2006, 16:31]
UK Law Smashes Consumer Spam
News With so much spam coming from outside of Europe, there have been claims that the European directive -- and the UK's implementation of it through this new legislation -- will only have a limited impact.
[September 18, 2003, 14:45]
Government: Our Spam Laws Won't Be Enough
News It is the UK government's way of implementing the European Union's directive on privacy and electronic communications. Even in the UK, we can't expect complete compliance with the new directive," said Timms.
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Government Purse Key To Breaking Spam Curse
News LINX outlined its views in more detail in its contribution to the government's consultation on the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive. The consultation on the directive closed this week.
[June 20, 2003, 12:24]
New Zealand To Outlaw Spam
Blog In Europe the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive is supposed to have been enacted right across the board, but countries have enacted the Directive with varying degrees of penalty for spamming.
[August 28, 2007, 17:18]
AOL And Microsoft Secure Ruling Against Spammer
News There has been much coverage of the shortcomings of the EU's new Privacy and E-Communications Directive, aimed in part at combating spam. In any event, it should be noted that these actions were launched before the Directive took effect and, at the...
[June 28, 2004, 16:35]
Spam Under Fire From UK Government
News Critics of the directive, though, have claimed that it will not significantly reduce the amount of spam received by Europeans, because the majority of such material is sent from companies that are not based in Europe and are therefore not...
[March 27, 2003, 13:28]
Spam Inquiry To Focus On International Laws
News The directive, which is in line to be made UK law using secondary legislation by 31 October, extends controls on unsolicited direct marketing to all forms of electronic communications including spam and SMS messages to mobile phones.
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
EU To Lose Billions Through Spam And Viruses
News Last year, the European Union brought in the Privacy and Electronics Communication Directive, which made it illegal for firms to send unsolicited emails to people they had no business relationship with.
[March 23, 2004, 11:15]
Faster Than Speeding Spam - 2004's Internet Hero
News Also from the DTI, Mary Tait was nominated for "for maintaining a balanced approach and striving for a joined-up approach to the variety of issues affecting the Internet industry in the E-Commerce Directive, the new Data Protection Directive and...
[December 23, 2003, 12:15]
European Telecoms Regulation May Ban Spam
News The new proposal is widely seen as a U-turn by Brussels -- the e-commerce directive offered consumers the right to opt-out of email lists but imposed no ban. Under the Processing of Personal Data Directive the Commission intends to give email the...
[May 11, 2000, 17:09]
EU Spam Legislation - What This Means For You
White Papers On Thursday 11 December 2003, the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications came into effect in the UK. The Directive introduces an opt-in regime for all commercial e-mail to individual subscribers.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
NetIQ's Marshal Helps Arnall Golden Gregory Fight Back
White Papers In addition to combating spam, the firm management also issued a directive to get control of non-business web surfing. They needed an open, flexible way to block spam. With NetIQ Marshal content security solutions, the firm has taken control of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Bill Gates 'can't Stop Spam'
News The survey also found that 38 percent of respondents didn't believe that the EU anti-spam directive would have any success in reducing unwanted emails. A survey of IT security professionals conducted at the Infosecurity show in London this week...
[April 30, 2004, 12:35]
Business Email May Escape Spam Crackdown
News By bringing in this anti-spam legislation, the government is implementing the European Union's directive on privacy and electronic communications. Speaking at the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms...
[July 2, 2003, 13:52]
MPs Demand Spam Protection For Businesses
News Last month the government launched its anti-spam legislation, which implements the EU Privacy and Electronics Communication Directive. A group of technology-savvy MPs have warned that the British government is wrong to allow spam emails to be sent...
[October 6, 2003, 17:05]
