Spammers Face Fine up to €250,000 in Ireland
The Irish Government has introduced a law that will impose a fine of €250,000 or 10% of the turnover on business found to be involved in spamming practice.
The Communication Minister of Ireland has introduced the law that makes spamming practice an offensive act. As per the reports, earlier, hackers were charged in the District Court where the maximum limit of fine was €3,000.
Security experts claim that although most of the spam mails come from outside Ireland, the ministerial directive raised the power of officials to break through the increasing menace of uninvited spam mails emerging from inside the Republic. Also, the legislation, which was made into law in the 3rd week of December 2008, is made to make sanctions tougher against those who send uninvited commercial mails to organizations and consumers in Ireland.
