Tag: legislation
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Throwback Thursday: Legal attempts to reduce spam. A UK perspective
This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to November 2003, when spam was such a hot topic that VB decided to launch a dedicated ‘VB Spam Supplement’. While, today, spam is a problem that is generally very well mitigated, 12 years ago it was a subject of growing concern and was becoming of increasing…
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Canadian firm fined $1.1m for breaching anti-spam law
First success story for long-awaited CASL. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the agency responsible for enforcing Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) has issued a $1.1m dollar fine to Compu-Finder , a Morin-Heights, Quebec-based firm, for violating the law. Anti-spam legislation plays an important if usually fairly invisible role in the fight against spam. It…
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Anonymous petitions Obama Administration
“Make DDoS a legal form of protest.” Hacking/protest group Anonymous has petitioned the Obama Administration to recognize DDoS attacks as a legal form of protest. The petition suggests that, rather than being a form of hacking, DDoS attacks are more like a form of ‘occupy’ protest (a recognised legal form of protest), arguing that “Instead…