Singapore antispam bill gets the nod

The antispam law made its first appearance in parliament on Feb. 12 this year, and was heard again for the final round this week in a speech by Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Dr Lee Boon Yang.

Citing a study conducted by Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Lee said e-mail spam resulted in productivity loss of S$23 million (US$15.1 million) in 2003, where each of the country’s three major ISPs received 5,000 spam-related complaints each month.

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