Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton believes spammers may breach Australia's National Privacy Principles and hopes to join the fight against spam by launching a test case. "More active pursuit of spammers by authorities is one of the recommendations of the . . .
Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton believes spammers may breach Australia's National Privacy Principles and hopes to join the fight against spam by launching a test case. "More active pursuit of spammers by authorities is one of the recommendations of the NOIE interim report on SPAM," Crompton said. "While we have not actively pursued spam beyond specific complaints received, this is clearly an initiative that the Office could consider if it had additional resources."

The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner cannot currently run such a case, he said, because its current case load of responses to actual complaints exceeds the number budgeted for by a factor of five. This leaves insufficient resources to run test cases.

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