[Ecommerce] First excution based on spam law
James Love
james.love@cptech.org
Thu Jan 16 13:23:01 2003
Does this mean that Japan has a rule regarding mandatory labeling of
spam? How exactly does this work?
Takeshi Muramoto wrote:
> Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
> executed the first administrative disposition to a spam mail contractor.
>
> The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and
> Telecommunications showed clearly that it disposed to the business in Tokyo
> on December 25, last year on the 9th based on the spam mail preventing
> method enforced in July, last year. It is the first administrative
> disposition based on the law.
> While the law made the title of mail "non-consented advertising *", it
> forbade retransmitting a message when reception refusal was carried out..
> This business was against the duty. As a result, the ministry has ordered
> the sender to be improved. if this contractor will not obey a order from now
> on, the ministry will impose a penalty of a JPY 500,000 or less for the
> violation.
>
> Takeshi Muramoto
> Consumer Law News Network
> musan@mba.sphere.ne.jp
>
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