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    E-mail marketer Wayne Mansfield and his company Clarity1 face penalties under Australia's anti-spam legislation following a Federal Court decision in Perth today in the first such prosecution by Australian regulatory authorities.

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    United States anti-spam company SpamArrest has come under fire for a controversial marketing campaign based on the very practice it claims to prevent.

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    Legislation may be leading the way in the war against spam, but proper education is still crucial.

  • Civil liberties group raises concerns over AU spam legislation

    Civil rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has claimed the legislation introduced by the Australian Parliament to fight spam will give investigators excessive search and seizure powers.

  • Car sales site fined over SMS spam

    Carsales.com.au, a classified advertisement Web site, has been fined AU$6,600 by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) for sending unsolicited SMS messages to potential customers.

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  • The impact of Australia's anti-spam legislation

    Spam costs businesses an average of A$900 per employee per year in lost productivity. Will Australia's new anti-spam laws reverse this trend?

  • UPDATE: AU government to ban spam

    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

  • Standards group to put spam on a diet

    An Internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of e-mail spam, which could have broad-ranging implications for future e-mail use and security.

  • Battling spyware in court

    In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.

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