Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers 172
amigoro writes "UK will start jailing the people who trade in email addresses, or any other personal data. The current Data Protection Act only fines people who do that, but the money one can make from trading in personal information was far higher than the measly GBP 5000 one had to pay if caught. The new regulations will result in a two year prison sentence for violating the Act."
Re:THE FALCONER! (Score:4, Informative)
-- yes
what count as deliberately misusing it?
-- any use other than the purpose for which I gave it to you
Go after people spamming and not someone giving out an e-mail address.
-- the people giving out the email address are just as guilty as the people sending spam
Re:FROSTY PISTOLIERS! (Score:1, Informative)
That will be a dead law. Not the first, and definitively not the last.
You know, 50 times and you're out... Welcome to UK!
Punishment fitting the crime not possible here (Score:5, Informative)
I really hate the pervasive meme that a crime is less of an issue if the damage is spread out over many victims, rather than concentrated on a few individuals. The economic damage done by a single large scale spam attack is large enough to fund several life saving operations. Just because you can't name the person who died doesn't make the crime any less severe.
And yes, the two years jail time is the upper limit, reserved to the worst cases. Most offenders will get far less than that, and first time offenders will most likely not even face jail time.
Wont work - retarded civil servants (Score:3, Informative)
Like your humour
but the uk's information commissioners office is far too lame to do anything about it. - explain why evil empire Microsoft sued the Milton Keynes spammer [freethcartwright.com] ,and not the civil service.
Blair and Bush masters of FUD '15 - minutes before you die'. Final thought: Imformation commisioners office (UK) could not party in brewery.