[Gllug] data protection & spamming

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:29:02AM +0000, Benedikt Heinen wrote:
> 
> What laws are there in the UK, dealing with spamming?
> 
> More specifically, what can I do against 2 companies who either handed out 
> my address to spammers; or did not protect my data well enough to prevent 
> it from getting into a spammer's hands?    (Two relatively well-known 
> companies - one dealing with financial information; one a broker).
> 
> Since about 8 weeks I've been receiving spam (fittingly mostly - stock 
> pump&dump scams), which weren't sent BY them, but it's clear that it's 
> their fault I even get these spams. I've asked both for explanations on 
> how this came to be, but am yet to receive a good response from them (one 
> better than "we're investigating the issue").
> 
> Apart from, obviously, stopping to deal with those companies - is there 
> anything else I can / should do?

The problem is *proving* that it was then who gave/leaked your email address to
spammers, that will be difficult ... ie the spammers did not get it somewhere else.

If you can: complain to the information commissioner.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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