This is the first instance of indecision to hit the telecoms committee at the EU and it may take a further three months to settle the issue of unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Phil Fraher, COO at US message filtering company Brightmail, said...
The fact is that legislation and policy will make very little difference in the fight against what most of us think of when we talk about spam. Talking to silicon.com after the event, Enrique Salem, CEO of anti-spam vendor Brightmail, who sponsored...
The European arm of the GSM Association has given its guarded backing for initiatives unveiled by the European Commission aimed at combating spam. GSM Europe (GSME), an interest group within the GSMA, which represents hundreds of mobile operators...
In the UK, we have strict data protection laws, so it pays to look carefully for tiny tick boxes that allow us to opt out of unsolicited mail. Whatever rules we introduce, the spammers just move around the world to escape legislation.
Customers often cite unsolicited telephone calls, sale of mailing lists and unsolicited emails as their top information privacy concerns. The EC felt it needed to regulate to ensure that there were similar rules in every country in the EU, so as to...
No one knows just how much of the email traversing the internet is unwanted, unsolicited marketing communications. But as the threat has evolved, so have the filtering techniques that help ensure spam never reaches the user, as Anthony Plewes reports.