HONG KONG - MAY 30, 2007 The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance was passed the second and third reading on May 23 ,2007.

During the first 7 days, MailProve had detected messages from e-marketers to send out spam message partly telling their support of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance together with their price list and special promotion.

According to that e-marketer, they claimed their message was not spam and in fact, that was their way to show their full support of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance. It seem the enforce agency will have a lot of work to do. Perhaps heavy fine will make those e-marketer understand what they are doing and how their messages had annoyed to email user on Internet.

This will be a real challenge to law enforcement agency and wait to see how it goes.

HONG KONG - MAY 23, 2007 The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance was enacted by the Legislative Council in May 2007.

The new Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance, to be published in the Gazette on Friday (June 1) will be implemented in two phases to regulate the sending of commercial electronic messages.

The first phase of the ordinance, which will come into effect from June 1, would cover the use of unscrupulous techniques to reach out to more recipients, such as the supply of list of electronic addresses harvested from Internet webpages, or the actual use of address harvesting software to capture email addresses for sending commercial electronic messages without the consent of recipients, as well as other techniques such as 'dictionary attacks' or 'brute force attacks' commonly used by spammers.

The second phase of the ordinance, which will come into effect by the end of 2007, will establish the rules for sending commercial electronic messages. For example, the following would be prohibited:

* Sending pre-recorded voice messages to telephones with calling line identification withheld;
* Sending commercial electronic messages without providing a way for recipients to opt out of receiving further messages;
* Continuing to send commercial electronic messages to a recipient despite his/her unsubscribe request; or
* Sending commercial electronic messages to an electronic address listed in the do-not-call registers, unless the consent of the registered users of those electronic addresses has been obtained.

Information source from Hong Kong Government

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