[Year 12 IT Apps] Spam Act 2003

[Mark KELLY]

The simplified version mentioned in the design includes:


*SPAM ACT 2003 - SECT 3

Simplified outline The following is a simplified outline of this Act:

• This Act sets up a scheme for regulating commercial e­mail and other types
of commercial electronic messages.

• Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be sent.

• Commercial electronic messages must include information about the
individual or organisation who authorised the sending of the message.

• Commercial electronic messages must contain a functional unsubscribe
facility.

• Address­ harvesting software must not be supplied, acquired or used.

• An electronic address list produced using address ­harvesting software
must not be supplied, acquired or used.

• The main remedies for breaches of this Act are civil penalties and
injunctions.

Note: The Telecommunications Act 1997 contains additional provisions about
commercial electronic messages. Those provisions include Part 6 (industry
codes and standards), Part 26 (investigations), Part 27
(information­gathering powers) and Part 28 (enforcement).

Source: http://www3.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sa200366/s3.html
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