On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:24:54 +1200, Robert Gray wrote:
DPF wrote
His e-mail database is almost certainly a breach of the Privacy Act. However a complaint can take 12 - 18 months to resolve. Do people feel there would be merit in having a formal complaint filed just so one can get "case law" on the books??
I too have had the matter raised with me. I'll go back to complainant and tell them this although by then he'll probably have moved on.
As an update on this I am helping facilitate a formal complaint to the Privacy Commissioner on this issue, for two reasons: 1) To help put a nail into this particular individual 2) To get a formal legal ruling that spamming of this type is illegal under the Privacy Act. It is likely the formal complaint will be laid next week and we may alert some media to this. If anyone knows of (or is themself) someone who received this e-mail and would be keen to add their name to a joint complaint please let me know. DPF ________________________________________________________________________ <david at farrar dot com> NZ Usenet FAQs - http://www.dpf.ac.nz/usenet/nz ICQ 29964527 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog