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13:31:20 on Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Paul Dodgson <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I thought that The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)
>Regulations 2003 relate to fax email SMS, MMS and telephone calls
SMS is mentioned as being included in the category "email".
Always dangerous to include technology-specific references in
regulations :(
>- so how do we classify the use of Bluetooth sending users contact
>lists. I suppose the test is, `is Bluetooth contact sending a public
>communication service' - I guess not.
I doubt that the Bluetooth transmission counts as "sent over a public
electronic communications network".
There's bound to be someone inside Ofcom who has looked into this, it's
just a matter of finding who, and asking what they thought about it!
--
Roland Perry
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