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Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot)
From: "Michael Simpson" <mikie.simpson () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:51:25 +0000
On 2/7/07, Paul Vixie <paul () vix com> wrote:
"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." http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1541254 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
IMO the executive are just gearing up for the inevitable fallout from the "connecting for health" fiasco and this is just an incidental benefit mike _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) Paul Vixie (Feb 07)
- Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) Michael Simpson (Feb 08)
- RE: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) David Harley (Feb 08)
- Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) crazy frog crazy frog (Feb 08)
- RE: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) David Harley (Feb 08)
- Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) Michael Simpson (Feb 08)
- RE: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) David Harley (Feb 08)
- Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot) Michael Simpson (Feb 08)