We did a submission to the DTI re the anti-spam proposals in the DTI
consultation that ended 10 days ago
If anyone wants a copy, please respond
Conclusions below
Our analysis leads us to make to two main recommendations.
1. We recommend that the unsolicited marketing provisions are
reworded so they apply to all users. Indeed, the result of these
regulations could be more and more spam at work - for instance, if there
are punishments which only arise from spam sent to individual
subscribers, it follows that the spammers will focus their efforts on
the users of corporate subscribers.
2. If we are right in thinking that most organisations would like
to have a law which relates to all spam, then the government's proposals
which mainly limit the application of the unsolicited marketing rules to
those individuals in the domestic environment are intellectually flawed.
Chris Pounder
Consultant & Editor of Data Protection & Privacy Practice
Information & Technology Group
Masons - International Law Firm
DDI: +44(0)20 7490 6605
Fax: +44(0)20 7490 2545
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Post-mail: 30 Aylesbury Street, London EC1R 0ER, UK
www.masons.com
www.out-law.com
______________________________E-mail confidentiality __________________________________ This message is intended for the addressee only. It is private, confidential and may be covered by legal professional privilege or other legal or attorney/client privilege. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. If you require assistance, please contact our London office (telephone +44 (0) 20 7490 4000). Masons is an international law firm with offices in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Brussels, Dublin, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Singapore. Further information about the firm and a list of partners is available for inspection at 30 Aylesbury Street, London EC1R OER or from our Web site at www.masons.com
This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet using MessageLabs SkyScan services. For more information visit: www.star.net.uk.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All archives of messages are stored permanently and are
available to the world wide web community at large at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html
If you wish to leave this list please send the command
leave data-protection to [log in to unmask]
All user commands can be found at : -
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/user-manual/summary-user-commands.htm
(all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|