Re: Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers (slashdot)

["Michael Simpson" <mikie.simpson () gmail com>]

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
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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
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