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ICO targets spam with new enforcement powers

10 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The Government has announced that people or organisations that send spam emails could be fined up to £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This would be for serious breaches of the...

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UK tops the table for spam

30 November 2010 | Simon Weinberg

The UK ranks above other Western European countries for the circulation of spam (junk email), according to a survey produced by Trend Micro, an Internet security business. Nearly 10% of spam emails from...

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BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive

28 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to implement a new E-Privacy Directive. The European Union law was passed in 2009 and needs to be implemented into domestic law...

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Anti-spam company ordered to pay US$27,000 in damages for wrongly blacklisting a company

25 June 2010 | Mark Weston

Spamhaus – an anti-spam company – has been ordered by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to pay E360 US$27,000 in damages for wrongly putting E360 on a spam blacklist. The...

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It’s a case of ‘Do As We Tell You’ not ‘Do As We Do’ as Labour is the latest political party caught out for flouting privacy laws when canvassing

10 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick | 1 comment

The Labour Party has embarrassingly been told off for breaching the privacy rights of 500,000 people in a canvassing campaign, when it sent the recipients a recorded message of actress Liz Dawn telling...

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