Electronic Frontiers Australia has published an analysis of the government’s proposed Spam Bills.

Here is their brief summary:

Proposed laws, claimed to be “anti-spam” laws, were introduced into Australian Parliament on 18 September 2003.

However, close scrutiny of the proposed legislation reveals that it is not anti-spam. While it would prohibit the sending of some spam, it would also legitimise and authorise the sending of other spam (unsolicited bulk commercial electronic messages). It would also prohibit the sending of some single messages to a particular person that few, if any, people would consider to be spam.

I’ve just had a read. There are huge holes in this legislation. We need a lot of changes before these laws are acceptable.