On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Richard Clayton wrote:
| In the UK my usual letter on the topic picks out the following three
| specific infringements committed by a "you sent me a virus but my system
| was clever enough to stop it" email
|
| * The subject line is misleading which is forbidden by s17 of SI 2002
| No. 2013 "The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002".
|
| * I have not given you permission to send me unsolicited marketing
| material, nor am I a customer of yours, so you are infringing s22 of
| SI 2003 No. 2426 "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC
| Directive) Regulations 2003".
|
| * You have not provided a valid address to which I can send a request
| that unsolicited direct marketing material ceases, which infringes
| s23 of SI 2003 No. 2426.
Yes, I'd been wondering about pointing UK sites that emit collateral spam
to the local "antispam" law:
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2003/20032426.htm
But sadly s22 appears to define spam as "unsolicited direct marketing",
rather than "unsolicited bulk". Sigh. So I guess we can only use this
against the *subset* of collateral spam that actually advertises the
virus/spam blocking system that cleverly "stopped the email you sent"...
