UK Anti-Spam Laws Criticised

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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Outmanned, Outgunned

[The Slashdotted]

.. they are using the loopholes to threaten Spamhaus with potentially devastating legal action if it continues to name them as spammers and block their mass mails targeted at business addresses.

Is there any such thing as a British libertarian? :P

As for the site, it says nothing about the Reg 22 in question, a search only finds the same letter in Word format. However it does look like they spent a pretty penny on their web designer. That's more comforting to the public than enforcing the law, I guess.

Re:Better in Belgium

[Anonymous Coward]

Strange, that email address seems to have been obfuscated through some strange slashcode bug.. it converted all the fullstops to the word dot!

the actual address is probably inspec.eco@mineco.fgov.be

Hope this helps!

Re:Better in Belgium

[Halo1]

Fucking idiot.