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Study Condemns European Anti-Spam Laws

by Ulrika Lomas, for LawAndTax-News.com, Brussels

30 April 2004

Research recently published by the Institute of Information Law (IvIR) at the University of Amsterdam has suggested that the EU's Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications has been rendered effectively "meaningless" by the lack of a coordinated global effort.

Following a nine month study of the European Union's spam laws led by Dr Lodewijk Asscher, in conjunction with spam filtering firm, Sybari, the researchers came to the conclusion that:

"The simple fact that most spam originates from outside the EU restricts the European Union's Directive's effectiveness considerably."

The Dutch study also criticised the lack of a provision within European law for EU citizens to complain if their ISPs are not doing enough to prevent spam, and suggested that the fact that eight countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Portugal) have yet to implement the Directive has seriously compromised its effectiveness.

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