Two victories, a settlement and a reduction in spam
Despite there currently being no US laws regarding SMS spam.
With Microsoft achieving a $4 million court victory against spammer Daniel
Khoshnood and his company Pointcom Inc., and the New York State reaching a
rather less impressive $40,000 settlement in its case against Scott
Richter, aka the 'Spam King', July was a fruitful month for legal action
against spammers - and not only in the US.
Last month also saw the first
court ruling based on the recently introduced Dutch anti-spam regulations.
Online job website NationaleVacaturebank.nl complained that employment
broker CVbank had been sending job seekers' CVs to the companies
advertising on its website, and giving the false impression that CVbank was
somehow affiliated with the job website.
Although Dutch anti-spam
regulations only cover unsolicited email sent to individual users (spam
sent to businesses is unaffected), the judge was able to rule that CVbank
had broken anti-spam regulations because, unknowingly, it had sent
unsolicited email to one of NationaleVacaturebank.nl's advertisers who had
given his private email address.
Meanwhile, Australian lawmakers had plenty to feel proud about when
Spamhaus executives at the United Nation's International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) meeting in Geneva revealed that they had observed a reduction
in the activity of known Australian spammers since the introduction of
Australia's strong anti-spam laws which came into effect in April 2004.
21 July 2004
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