Poster
07-08-2004, 12:57 PM
The International Telecommunications Union along with the UN, the Council of Europe, and the World Trade Organization are convening to discuss the "modern day epidemic" of spam email. Regulators from 60 different countries are hoping they will have the problem solved within two years by creating international legislation to combat spammers. The UN will create legislation in hopes that individual countries will follow, and adopt the same legislation.
"(We have) an epidemic on our hands that we need to learn how to control," Robert Horton, the acting chief of the Australian communications authority, told reporters. "International cooperation is the ultimate goal."
Top priority is "*****graphic material … that may come to the attention of children," said Horton, who is running the meeting. "I think it's time we did something formally about this. We will have to come to some sort of general understanding."
For more information see: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/06/tech/main627736.shtml
"(We have) an epidemic on our hands that we need to learn how to control," Robert Horton, the acting chief of the Australian communications authority, told reporters. "International cooperation is the ultimate goal."
Top priority is "*****graphic material … that may come to the attention of children," said Horton, who is running the meeting. "I think it's time we did something formally about this. We will have to come to some sort of general understanding."
For more information see: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/06/tech/main627736.shtml