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Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the losing-the-key dept.

amigoro writes "UK will start jailing the people who trade in email addresses, or any other personal data. The current Data Protection Act only fines people who do that, but the money one can make from trading in personal information was far higher than the measly GBP 5000 one had to pay if caught. The new regulations will result in a two year prison sentence for violating the Act."

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  1. New commercial by Pakaran2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fine: GBP 5000
    Legal bills: GBP 2000
    Your cellmate Bubba finding out that you're the one behind him getting all those Nigerian emails: Priceless

    1. Re:New commercial by CaptainZapp · · Score: 4, Funny

      And don't forget that Bubba layed his grubby hands on just about any pen1s enlarrrgement offer he received by email.

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  2. Ahh, but until then ... by ubrgeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do I hear $5 for rodgster@yahoo.c o m?

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  3. Re:THE FALCONER! by CaptainZapp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you feel like your privacy has been violated if someone that already had your e-mail address sells/trades/gives it to someone else?

    It's actually worse then that. I feel that my sanitary and healthy living conditions are polluted by some low life scumbag who's getting rich quick by shitting into the communal water supply.

    This is metaphorically speaking, of course.

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  4. Re:FROSTY PISTOLIERS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just ship them off to Australia like you used to do. Problem solved.

  5. Re:E360INSIGHT, are you listening? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This raises an interesting point .... how loudly would the American government be screaming if a US citizen was arrested in Britain for doing something which was perfectly legal in the US but which affected UK citizens and was against their laws???

    I don't know ... if they were sending out spam, I'd prefer that they be quickly extradited to whatever third-world country still practices breaking-at-the-wheel.

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  6. receiving Xspam emails about as bad as being raped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...BadAnalogyGuy, is that you?

  7. Reminds me of C++ programmers by ColonelPanic · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... because C++ programmers make "friends" solely for the purpose of exposing their "private" parts to them.

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