{"id":381,"date":"2007-06-24T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-24T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T14:06:00","slug":"sa-gets-tough-on-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/381-sa-gets-tough-on-spammers.html","title":{"rendered":"SA gets tough on spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The protection of personal information bill, which will be debated by the South African Law Commission this week, aims to clamp down on businesses using customers details without their permission, the Sunday Independent reported. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Under the bill, email addresses and cellphone numbers are deemed private information and sending emails or texts offering products or services in the absence of prior written permission from the recipient would be illegal. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The bill proposes the establishment of an independent Information Protection Commmission to enforce the law. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Failure to comply with a order from the commission to stop sending spam would be a criminal offence punishable by a fine or up to 10 years in prison, according to the bill, which will go before the justice minister after the Law Commission.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79197\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam-senders in South Africa could face 10 years in prison under draconian measures aimed at ending the plague of unwanted email and cellphone communications, a report said on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}