[LINK] Questions about SMS Spam

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Good points, Greg. A point: I know of no telecommunications carrier that
tells people about it its privacy policy relating to SMS...

RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Taylor [mailto:gtaylor@efa.org.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 10:36
To: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: RE: [LINK] Questions about SMS Spam


At 04:23 AM 23/10/2001, Dassa wrote:
>..
>Most terms of service already cover this by including articles that give
the
>provider the right to send advertisements, either in house or external
>included with client communications.  As it is explicitely mentioned in the
>TOS, the client would not have any call to invoke the PC.

That's the old way.

The new way is privacy policies and express permission-based 
marketing.  And if a client finds that the supplier is abusing the trust 
relationship, or not providing an opt-in arrangement, or ignoring opt-out 
requests, the client has every right to invoke the PC, or indeed to take 
their business to a supplier that doesn't treat their customers' privacy 
with contempt.

Greg