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No thank you spam
A drive is about to begin to rid our inboxes of unwanted promotional emails
by Kahon Chan
T
elecom regulators system which allows users Tou says Macau isn’t under has been concluded and the
want to restrict the to register in order to block any serious threat, but he contracts will be signed be-
amount of spam you the receipt of promotional e- adds that the Bureau will be fore the end of March, fol-
receive in your inbox. mails, might also be imple- cautious about this issue due lowed by a public bidding
The Telecommunica- mented in Macau. to the rapid changes in tech- for providing services. The
tions Regulatory Bureau “For instance, if a user nology. DSRT announced at the start
(DSRT) hopes to do so wants to stop receiving such Tou also revealed that of the year that this service
through administrative regu- messages or restrict the use the bidding process for WIFI would be launched within the
lation preventing the misuse of his/her personal data col- hotspots in 34 public areas first half of 2010.
of personal information. lected by the private sector,
A period of public con- there’ll be a channel where
sultation will be launched he/she can register.
this year and the DSRT also “Any senders of publicity
says it hopes to guarantee e-mails will have to consult
the delivery of public WIFI the database to verify which
systems within one or two users have declined to be
months. contacted. Of course, there
are companies that need to
Foreign models do commercial promotions,
DSRT director Tou Veng but we don’t want those chan-
Keong says they carried out nels to be misused. We must
studies which took into ac- find equilibrium between the
count foreign models, such as two,” the director added.
those implemented in neigh-
bouring Hong Kong, and it Safety net
seems feasible that a database In terms of internet safety,
March 2010
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