05-31-2002, 09:07 PM
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Originally posted by Ar-Cunin:
Internet users shall no longer be forced to spend time (and money) downloading and opening junk-mail. In the future the consumer must have asked to recieve e-mails, before a firm may send them to the consumer.
The EU-Commision and Europe-Parlaiment have agreed on this in a new EU-direktiv on data-securiety. All that there is needed now is approval from the 15 member contries before it can be finally approved, but all 15 have given their promise that it will be implemented.
Firms will also have to have permision to use cookies to store personal information about people that use their web-sites.
This looks to be a good day 
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Any word on how they will prosecute offenders? Will the EU be able to extradite offenders from other countries with no such laws? The problem with making laws about net stuff is that no single nation or group of nations controls it.
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