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"Safeguards should be provided for subscribers against intrusion of their privacy by unsolicited communications for direct marketing purposes in particular by means of automated calling machine, telefaxes and email, including SMS messages. These forms of unsolicited commercial communications may on the one hand be relatively cheap and easy to send and on the other may impose a burden and/or cost on the recipient. Moreover, in some cases their volume may also cause difficulties for electronic communications networks and terminal equipment. For such forms of unsolicited communications for direct marketing, it is justified to require that prior explicit consent of the recipients is obtained before such communications are addressed to them."

Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 12th July 2002

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I'd like to thank everyone whose emailed me in the past few days. Do keep sending your comments. Up to a couple of days ago, I was responding in near-real-time. It's snowballed a little since then, so I'm a little behind. I will, however, get back everyone who writes to me eventually. If you do email, please indicate whether you'd like to be kept in touch with developments by email.

(Pretty obviously, I won't email you with news updates etc. unless I do have your permission!)

As a result of your emails, some very interesting and new ideas to combat spam have emerged which I think are very worth developing further, and I will report back here in the next week or two. So please keep checking back .. as you can see the site is developing and being updated several times daily. Nigel

Useful and interesting links

Spam Laws around the world

Channel Islands Domain Names (.JE and .GG)

D L Legal LLP (Internet and IP Lawyers, London)

Lawdit Ltd (Internet law firm, Southampton)

The Spamhaus Project

Please note

I think it's only fair to note that Media Logistics GmbH appears to have nothing to do with the UK company of similar name. If looking for Media Logistics, the design and multimedia authoring company, their website is in the .COM domain (whereas the Scottish email marketing company has their website in the .NET domain).

 

Media coverage of Roberts -v- Media Logistics (UK) Ltd

BBC News

ITN News

Channel 4

The Times

The Guardian

The Independent

Daily Mirror

The Sun

The Scotsman

Glasgow Herald

Daily Record

East Anglian Daily Times

Manchester Evening News

Evening Times

New Zealand Herald

 

UK and European online media

English

The Register (Kieren Mccarthy)

The Register (John Leyden)

The European Movement

Top Tech News

Benjamin Cohen's column in Times Online

Platinax

ZDnet

 

Nederlands

Webfactor Nieuwsblad

Zibb.NL

Web Wereld

Tweakers

 

In other languages

digitoday.fi (Suomi/Finnish)

La Vanguardia (Spanish)

Security Net (Polish)

Hungarian Interior Ministry (Hungarian)

bug.hr (Croatian)

DN Kiev (Ukrainian)

Rambler Media Group (Russian)

 

 

A different slant on the story

Marketing Improvement

 

World coverage

English

CIO Today (USA)

Real Tech News (USA)

Newkerala (India)

Techtree (India)

stuff.co.nz (New Zealand)

The Missing Amendment (USA)

Techdirt

Viruslist.com

TMCnet

Bit Tech

Spanish

El Universal (Mexico)

24 Horas Libre (Peru)

mouse.cl (Chile)

 

Other cases of note

Virgin Net Ltd -v- Adrian Paris

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