Spam Legislation Workshop
Hi all, You may have seen that the Government has released a discussion document on anti-spam legislation for New Zealand. As part of the consultation on any legislation, InternetNZ has arranged with the Government for an industry workshop on Thursday 24 June in Wellington for interested members of the Internet, business, legal and educational communities. The aim is to help make any legislation as effective and useful as possible. A formal invite has gone out snail mail to ISPs and others. I thought I'd mention it here also, so people can pass it on informally to anyone appropriate within their organisation etc. The draft programme for the workshop, a registration form, and a link to the Government's discussion document are all on InternetNZ's website at www.internetnz.net.nz. Cheers DPF -- David Farrar e-mail: david(a)farrar.com blog: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz msn: dpf666(a)hotmail.com icq: 29964527
I think the saying better late than never definitely applies. Certainly we are behind most OECD countries as I think only Canada and Turkey have yet to pass such laws. Australia and the US both passed their laws in the last six months. The EU issued a directive a fair while ago, but many of their member states only implemented it within the last year. So we are behind, but not quite five years behind. Any law is unlikely to be passed until next year so maybe by then Bill Gates will have solved the problem, as promised :-) DPF
-----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2004 8:08 p.m. To: David Farrar Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Spam Legislation Workshop
David Farrar wrote:
Hi all,
You may have seen that the Government has released a discussion document on anti-spam legislation for New Zealand.
It's mid-2004 now. Should this not have happened say five years ago?
-- Juha
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 20:07, Juha Saarinen wrote:
David Farrar wrote:
Hi all,
You may have seen that the Government has released a discussion document on anti-spam legislation for New Zealand.
It's mid-2004 now. Should this not have happened say five years ago?
I think that this is a case of better late than early -- other countries have made a hash of it (I've seen a lot of criticism of the US legislation). We just might have a chance of getting it right.
Russell Fulton wrote:
I think that this is a case of better late than early -- other countries have made a hash of it (I've seen a lot of criticism of the US legislation). We just might have a chance of getting it right.
I'm from the wrong part of the world for such frivolous optimism, unfortunately. Other countries were late too, like the US, reacting only after the spam problem had become intolerable. As you said, the enacted laws aren't terribly good, and certainy don't appear to have benefited from "problem ageing". It's not always the right thing to do, to wait see what others do. While we waited, the US for instance created anti-spam laws that now cover the activities of NZ citizens, simply because there is no equivalent legislation here. That's fine, if we want to hand over yet more of our sovereignty to foreign powers while our guvmint has a well-paid kip on its watch, but I don't agree with it. -- Juha
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