Email spam legislation by country

The following table represents laws in respective countries which restrict the use of Email spam.

Note: Countries marked with red are listed in the Spamhaus' Worst Spam Origin Countries.^[1]

	Country	Legislation	Section	Implemented	Ref
	Argentina	Personal Data Protection Act (2000)	§27	October 30, 2000	[2][3]
	Australia	Spam Act 2003	Part 2	12 December 2003	[4]
	Austria	Austrian Telecommunications Act 1997	§107		[5]
	Belgium	Loi du 11 mars 2003 ("Law of March 11 2003")		27 March 2003	[5]
	Brazil	None (loosely; Movimento Brasileiro de Combate ao Spam)			[6]
	Canada	Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 (PIPEDA)			[7]
	Canada	Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act 2010			[8]
	Canada	Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation 2014 (CASL)			[9]
	China	Regulations on Internet email Services		30 March 2006	[5]
	Cyprus	Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004	§6		[10]
	Czech Republic	Act No. 480/2004 Coll., on Certain Information Society Services	§7		[10]
	Denmark	Danish marketing practices act	§6		[5]
	European Union	Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications	Art.13	31 October 2003	[11]
	Finland	Act on Data Protection in Electronic Communications (516/2004)			[5]
	France	Loi du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique ("Law of June 21 2004 for confidence in the digital economy")	Art.22		[5]
	Germany	Gesetz gegen Unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) ("Act against Unfair Competition")	Art.7		[5][12]
	Hong Kong	Unsolicited Electronic Messaging Ordinance		22 December 2007	[13]
	Hungary	Act CVIII of 2001 on Electronic Commerce	Art.14		[5]
	India	None (loosely; Information Technology Act, 2000 §67)			[14]
	Indonesia	Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronic (ITE) (Internet Law)			[15]
	Ireland	European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 2003	Section 13 (1) (b)	6 November 2003	[16]
	Israel	Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting), 1982 (Amendment 2008)	Art.30	December 2008	[17][18]
	Italy	Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree no. 196/2003)	§130		[5][19]
	Japan	The Law on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail		April 2002	[5]
	Malaysia	Communications and Multimedia Act 1998			[20]
	Malta	Data Protection Act (CAP 440)	§10		[21][22]
	Mexico	None			[10]
	Netherlands	Dutch Telecommunications Act	Art.11.7		[5][23]
	New Zealand	Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007	All	5 September 2007	[24]
	Pakistan	Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007	§14	31 December 2007	[25][26]
	Russia	None (loosely: Russian Civil Code: Art.309)			[10]
	Singapore	Spam Control Act 2007		15 June 2007	[27]
	South Africa	Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002	§45		[28]
	South Africa	Consumer Protection Act, 2008	§11	October 2010	[29]
	South Korea	Act on Promotion of Information and Communication and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection of 2001	Art.50		[10]
	Spain	Act 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce			[5][30]
	Sweden	Marknadsföringslagen (1995:450) "Swedish Marketing Act"	§13b		[5][31][32]
	Turkey	Elektronik Ticaretin Düzenlenmesi Hakkında Kanun "Act About Regulation of E-Commerce"			[5][33][34]
	United Kingdom	Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003
	United States	Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003)	All	16 December 2003	[35]

The following table represents laws in respective countries which legalize the use of Email spam.

	Country	Legislation	Section	Implemented	Ref
	Bulgaria	The Law of electronic commerce (2006)	Чл.5,6	December 26, 2006	[36]

See also

• Email spam
• Spamming
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
• List of countries by number of Internet users

External links

• Piercing the Corporate Veil and Corporate Groups

References

1. ↑ Spamhaus:The 10 Worst Spam Origin Countries
2. ↑ PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT
3. ↑ Argentina Personal Data Protection Act (2000)
4. ↑ SPAM ACT 2003
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 OECD Task Force
6. ↑ www.spamlaws.com
7. ↑ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
8. ↑ Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act
9. ↑ Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 ITU SURVEY ON ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION WORLDWIDE
11. ↑ http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32002L0058
12. ↑ The New German Act Against Unfair Competition, Jan Peter Heidenreich
13. ↑ http://www.ofta.gov.hk/EN/UEM/uemo_i.pdf
14. ↑ Laws For Spam Regulation
15. ↑ Indonesian Government Ratified Internet Law: Death to Bloggers' Voice?
16. ↑ SI 535/2003 in the Irish Statute Book
17. ↑ (Hebrew)חוק התקשורת (בזק ושידורים), התשמ"ב-1982
18. ↑ Zvi Zrahiya (2008-03-26). "Economic Affairs committee approves: NIS 200,000 fine for spam". Haaretz. 
19. ↑ http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/1311248
20. ↑ http://www.skmm.gov.my/what_we_do/ins/regulatory.asp
21. ↑ Data Protection Act
22. ↑ Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
23. ↑ http://www.dutchdpa.nl/documenten/en_wetten_wbp.shtml?refer=true&theme=purple
24. ↑ New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs
25. ↑ AMLAW: Electronic/Cyber Crimes Ordinance Promulgated in Pakistan
26. ↑ Full Text of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007
27. ↑ The Spam Control Act Comes Into Effect
28. ↑
29. ↑
30. ↑ Act 34/2002
31. ↑ Swedish Marketing Act
32. ↑ The Marketing Act
33. ↑ Act About Regulation of E-Commerce
34. ↑ The Marketing Act
35. ↑ CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
36. ↑ ЗАКОН ЗА ЕЛЕКТРОННАТА ТЪРГОВИЯ