As a long term solution that provides a realistic and effective mechanism to stop spam the experian ruling provides a solid basis and that is get a 'Court Order'.
Now if we could just get Congress (in the US at least) to pass an effective law against SPAM that would allow users to sue to block address domains from receiving unsoliticated commerical email.
Until then MAPS will remain an imperfect solution that is open to lawsuits.
A strong government enforced identity system would certainly be a good idea for our general online safety. Such a system, if established, could be protected by law from search, seizure, monitoring, etc. just like our telephones are.
With such a system we would not have to have a thousand different registrations for every website or online purchase.
It would also not take that much effort to put in place a privacy feature that would allow you participate anonymously with specific rules for breaking the privacy provision.
The key would be to ensure that a strong oversight was put in place, given the current climate (and Justice Dept. powergrab) I doubt that Congress would have the good sense to implement any online initiative sensibly.
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As a long term solution that provides a realistic and effective mechanism to stop spam the experian ruling provides a solid basis and that is get a 'Court Order'.
Now if we could just get Congress (in the US at least) to pass an effective law against SPAM that would allow users to sue to block address domains from receiving unsoliticated commerical email.
Until then MAPS will remain an imperfect solution that is open to lawsuits.
Several reports exist saying that the NSA isn't able to process what data they already have in Echelon.
I would be more concerned that Ashcroft's Army of Clones aka the FBI were knocking then the NSA
One such report: www.infowar.comA strong government enforced identity system would certainly be a good idea for our general online safety. Such a system, if established, could be protected by law from search, seizure, monitoring, etc. just like our telephones are.
With such a system we would not have to have a thousand different registrations for every website or online purchase.
It would also not take that much effort to put in place a privacy feature that would allow you participate anonymously with specific rules for breaking the privacy provision.
The key would be to ensure that a strong oversight was put in place, given the current climate (and Justice Dept. powergrab) I doubt that Congress would have the good sense to implement any online initiative sensibly.