New New Zealand spam laws to allow spam
Adjustments to laws may let 'non-commercial' spam continue.
Recommendations have been made to dilute tough new anti-spam laws currently being debated by the New Zealand
government. A select committee has suggested that emails with no obvious commercial intent should be permitted under
the new system.
The new laws will insist on opt-out systems in all mass mails, impose heavy fines on spammers, and include banning the
use for spam, if not the possession or distribution, of email address-harvesting software. As well as going easy on
non-profit 'ideological' bulk email, the bill also ignores the growing problems of text message and voice spam.
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4 September 2006
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