> It depends if you are the subscriber at that email address and an > individual. Well, I think this is my point. The Directive says nothing about 'subscriber'. It talks about 'natural persons' AFAICT Must 'subscriber' (as it appears in the regulations) be given a literal construction (as in the person who pays the bill) or a purposive construction (as in 'individual subscriber = natural person'). If the former, then as a company maybe I am free to SMS spam any child whose mobile phone is paid for by his or her parents. Nigel ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^