UK anti-spam victory for Microsoft
Lawsuit won against UK spammer.
Microsoft has won a lawsuit against a spammer based in the UK. Microsoft
launched legal proceedings against 37-year-old Paul Martin McDonald after
receiving numerous complaints from its Hotmail customers. McDonald's
company Bizads sold lists of email addresses of people it claimed had
subscribed to receive information about business oportunities via email.
However, according to Microsoft the lists included the email addresses of a
large number of its Hotmail customers who had not opted in or subscribed to
any such service.
Microsoft argued that McDonald's activity breached the Privacy and
Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations and that it was
suffering loss and damage to the goodwill it had as operator of Hotmail.
McDonald was issued with a court order banning him from instigating the
transmission of spam emails. He may also be ordered to pay compensation to
Microsoft.
03 January 2007
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