{"id":1635,"date":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/29\/mixed-reaction-to-new-zealand-spam-bill\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:43","slug":"mixed-reaction-to-new-zealand-spam-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/29\/mixed-reaction-to-new-zealand-spam-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed reaction to New Zealand spam bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been mixed reaction from the industry to a bill tabled in aimed at fighting junk emails.  Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe has tabled the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill, which will prevent the mass-marketing of emails and text messages to unsubscribed receivers.  The Marketing Association&#8217;s Chief Executive Keith Norris says while they support the bill, it won&#8217;t change company practice, as they have had a permission-based code for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norris also says only 10% of spam originates in New Zealand and the bill is aimed at reinforcing international law.<\/p>\n<p>Internet New Zealand&#8217;s Executive Director Pete Macaulay says with around 80% of emails being spam, it is important to free up the internet.  But he says the bill puts an unfair emphasis on Internet Service Providers for enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/view\/page\/411419\/600773<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}