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UK Anti-Spam Laws Criticised

Posted by michael on from the self-help dept.

stripyd writes "The Guardian has an article about the ineffectiveness of British anti-spam regulations. Asside from the limited penalties, the Office of the Information Commissioner have yet to actually hand out a fine. From personal experience, the OIC aren't good at answering email on queries regarding the law, their web site, or suggestions that the current procedure of tracking down, printing out and mailing off (with a stamp!) a five-page pdf form to report miscreants be streamlined. The form itself is good for a few yuks, until you remember your taxes are paying for it to be outsourced to private sector hosting."

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  1. Re:Better in Belgium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes, welcome to the live of living in the shadow of another incompentant Labour government, fucking clueless

  2. Ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    that the PDF form is located on an "eMarketing" companies website, not suprising when the company is based in Liverpool which is unemployment city, the further up north of england you get the more unemployment and therefore the more desperate
    companies become to earn an honest living, loan sharks, finance companies, small insurance companies, mail frauds, drug importing, you name a scam or seedy buisness sector and they are allways in the north of England, co-incidence ?

  3. Re:Ineffective. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Newsflash- Java's just an emormous hoax. It's not a programming language.