[Gllug] EU Data privacy questionnaire

[John Southern]

Could we not all spend some time spamming the MEP's with junk offers until 
they realise how horrid this is.
The company a few desks down from me is a spamming company. They buy in email 
addresses. These start at about £5K for 500K localised users. For a small 
increase £500 they get an extra 1M users and so on. The collection services 
are very agressive and lots of guarantees of emails being used this week 
rather than old data. Couple of months back most of the harvesters were from 
China. This month they appear to be Polish. It seems to move around countries 
as an industry rather than just new ones appearing.
For me at the moment they are just an irritation. Does anyone pay for every 
email receipt say for example by using Orange to a Nokia phone and if so how 
do they cope?

And as for the spamming company - guess I will get shouted at on Monday when 
they realize I have just broke their connection. One small Cat5e cable, one 
small act of rebellion - every little helps.

John - now waiting for the thought police.

> The European Commission has a questionnaire up at:-
>
> http://europa.eu.int/BFM/consultation/index.cfm?fuseaction=form&id_form=204
>&lang=en
>
> It's probably worth spending the 5 minutes to fill it in - it may
> conceivably persuade the EU to re-introduce the death penalty for
> spammers.
>
> Mike.


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