Australian Anti-Spam Law Disappoints
Opposition members in the Australian Senate have joined forces to significantly
water down anti-spam legislation, much to the annoyance of the government, which
has vowed to reject the amendments when the bill returns to the lower house. In its original state, the legislation had put forward a reasonably standard
model, whereby customers would be required to 'opt in' in order to receive commercial
e-mails, with the existence of a prior business relationship with a firm taken
as an opt-in unless otherwise stated. However, the amendments to the bill put in place by the opposition parties
allow firms to send unsolicited e-mails to anyone that they think may be interested
in their products and services, thus rendering the legislation effectively toothless. Communications Minister, Daryl Williams called upon the opposition parties
to pass the bill in its unamended form when it is bounced back to the Senate
by the government-dominated lower house. "This is a giant loophole that unscrupulous spammers could not have designed
better themselves," he observed angrily. .
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