View source for Email spam legislation by country

The following table represents laws in respective countries or jurisdictions which restrict the use of [[Email spam]].

''Note: Countries / Jurisdictions marked with red are listed in the Spamhaus' Worst Spam Origin Countries (March 2020).''<ref>[http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/ The Spamhaus Project - The Top 10 Worst Countries]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Argentina}}||Personal Data Protection Act (2000)||§&nbsp;27||October 30, 2000||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.privacyinternational.org/countries/argentina/argentine-dpa.html |title=PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT |access-date=2008-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080814002151/http://www.privacyinternational.org/countries/argentina/argentine-dpa.html |archive-date=2008-08-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-61939 |title=Argentina Personal Data Protection Act (2000) |access-date=2008-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408211157/http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-61939 |archive-date=2009-04-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Australia}}||[[Spam Act 2003]]||Part 2||12 December 2003 || <ref>[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sa200366/ SPAM ACT 2003]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Austria}}||Austrian Telecommunications Act 1997 ||§&nbsp;107
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Belgium}}||Wet van 11 maart 2003 betreffende bepaalde juridische aspecten van de diensten van de informatiemaatschappij / <br />Loi du 11 mars 2003 sur certains aspects juridiques des services de la société de l'information<br />''("Law of March 11, 2003 concerning certain legal aspects of information society services")''||||27 March 2003 ||<ref name=oecd/>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Brazil}}||None ''(loosely; Movimento Brasileiro de Combate ao Spam)||||||<ref>[http://www.spamlaws.com/world.shtml www.spamlaws.com]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Bulgaria}}||The Law of electronic commerce (2006)||Чл.5,6||December 26, 2006||<ref>[http://lex.bg/bg/laws/ldoc/2135530547 ЗАКОН ЗА ЕЛЕКТРОННАТА ТЪРГОВИЯ]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Canada}}||Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 ('''PIPEDA''')||||||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showtdm/cs/P-8.6 |title=Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act |access-date=2008-08-12 |archive-date=2011-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309041225/http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showtdm/cs/P-8.6 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Canada}}||[[Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act]] 2010 ||||||<ref>[http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4547728&Language=e&Mode=1 Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Canada}}||Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation 2014 ('''CASL''')||||||<ref>[http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation]</ref>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|China}}||Regulations on Internet email Services||
||30 March 2006||<ref name=oecd>{{cite web |url=http://www.oecd-antispam.org/countrylaws.php3 |title=OECD Task Force |accessdate=2008-08-12 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827191919/http://www.oecd-antispam.org/countrylaws.php3 |archivedate=August 27, 2008 }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Colombia}}||Law of Habeas Data||§&nbsp;6||31 December 2008|||<ref>{{cite web |title=Ley Habeas Data |url=http://wp.presidencia.gov.co/sitios/normativa/leyes/Documents/Juridica/Ley%201266%20de%2031%20de%20diciembre%202008.pdf |accessdate=5 July 2018}}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Croatia}}||Electronic Communications Act ||§&nbsp;107||22 July 2017|||<ref>{{cite web |title=Zakon o elektroničkim komunikacijama |url=https://www.zakon.hr/z/182/Zakon-o-elektroni%C4%8Dkim-komunikacijama |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Cyprus}}||Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004||§&nbsp;6||||<ref name=ITU>[http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/spam/legislation/Background_Paper_ITU_Bueti_Survey.pdf ITU SURVEY ON ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION WORLDWIDE]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Czech Republic}}||Act No. 480/2004 Coll., on Certain Information Society Services||§&nbsp;7||||<ref name=ITU/>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Denmark}}||Danish marketing practices act ||[https://danskelove.dk/markedsf%C3%B8ringsloven/10 §&nbsp;10]
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Estonia}}||Electronic Communications Act||§&nbsp;103||1 January 2005||<ref>[https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/521082017008/consolide Electronic Communications Act]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|European Union}}||Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications||Art.&nbsp;13||31 October 2003 || <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32002L0058 |title = EUR-Lex - 32002L0058 - EN - EUR-Lex| date=12 July 2002 }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Finland}}||Act on Data Protection in Electronic Communications (516/2004)
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|France}}||Loi du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique <br />''("Law of June 21, 2004 for confidence in the digital economy")''||Art.&nbsp;22
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Germany}}||Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG)<br />''("Unfair Competition Act")''||§&nbsp;7
||||<ref name=oecd/><ref>[http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/literature/heidenreich.htm The New German Act Against Unfair Competition, Jan Peter Heidenreich]</ref>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Hong Kong}}||Unsolicited Electronic Messaging Ordinance||||22 December 2007||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ofta.gov.hk/EN/UEM/uemo_i.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011085225/http://www.ofta.gov.hk/en/uem/uemo_i.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Hungary}}||Act CVIII of 2001 on Electronic Commerce||Art.&nbsp;14
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|India}}||None ''(loosely; Information Technology Act, 2000 §&nbsp;67)''||||||<ref>[http://law4spamregulation.blogspot.com/2007/07/laws-for-spam-regulation.html Laws For Spam Regulation ]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Indonesia}}||Undang-undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronic (ITE) (''Internet Law'')||||||<ref>[http://opennet.net/blog/2008/06/indonesian-government-ratified-internet-law-death-bloggers-voice Indonesian Government Ratified Internet Law: Death to Bloggers' Voice?]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Ireland}}||European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 2003||Section 13 (1) (b)||6 November 2003||<ref>[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/en/si/0535.html SI 535/2003 in the Irish Statute Book]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Israel}}||Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting), 1982 (Amendment 2008) ||Art.&nbsp;30||December 2008||<ref>{{in lang|he}}[http://www.moc.gov.il/sip_storage/FILES/3/243.pdf חוק התקשורת (בזק ושידורים), התשמ"ב-1982]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Italy}}||Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree no. 196/2003) ||§&nbsp;130||
||<ref name=oecd/><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/1311248 |title = Docweb - Garante Privacy}}</ref>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Japan}}||The Law on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Malaysia}}||Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 ||||||<ref>http://www.skmm.gov.my/what_we_do/ins/regulatory.asp</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Malta}}||Data Protection Act (CAP 440)
||§&nbsp;10||||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://idpc.gov.mt/dbfile.aspx/LN16-2003.pdf |title=Data Protection Act |access-date=2012-03-18 |archive-date=2016-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308231431/http://idpc.gov.mt/dbfile.aspx/ln16-2003.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://idpc.gov.mt/article.aspx?art=116 Office of the Data Protection Commissioner]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Mexico}}||None||||||<ref name=ITU/>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Netherlands}}||Dutch Telecommunications Act||Art.&nbsp;11.7||
||<ref name=oecd/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dutchdpa.nl/documenten/en_wetten_wbp.shtml?refer=true&theme=purple |title=Dutch DPA - Personal Data Protection Act |access-date=2008-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524202430/http://www.dutchdpa.nl/documenten/en_wetten_wbp.shtml?refer=true&theme=purple |archive-date=2006-05-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|New Zealand}}|| Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 ||All|| 5 September 2007 ||<ref>[http://www.dia.govt.nz/DIAwebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-Spam-Index New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Norway}}||Lov om kontroll med markedsføring og avtalevilkår mv. (markedsføringsloven)||Chap.&nbsp;3 - §&nbsp;15||1 March 2001
||<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2009-01-09-2#KAPITTEL_3 |title = Lov om kontroll med markedsføring og avtalevilkår mv. (Markedsføringsloven) - Lovdata}}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Pakistan}}||Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007
||§&nbsp;14||31 December 2007||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amlaw.pk/blog/2007/12/31/electronic-crime-cyber-crime-ordinance-act-law-credit-card-fraud-spam-spoof-forgery-malicious-online-internet-pakistan/ |title=AMLAW: Electronic/Cyber Crimes Ordinance Promulgated in Pakistan |access-date=2008-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918014611/http://www.amlaw.pk/blog/2007/12/31/electronic-crime-cyber-crime-ordinance-act-law-credit-card-fraud-spam-spoof-forgery-malicious-online-internet-pakistan/ |archive-date=2008-09-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.na.gov.pk/ordinances/elect_crimes_10042008.pdf |title=Full Text of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 |access-date=2008-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411000659/http://www.na.gov.pk/ordinances/elect_crimes_10042008.pdf |archive-date=2009-04-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Russia}}||None (''loosely: Russian Civil Code: Art.&nbsp;309'')||||||<ref name=ITU/>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Singapore}}||Spam Control Act 2007||||15 June 2007 ||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ida.gov.sg/News%20and%20Events/20070608182820.aspx?getPagetype=20 |title=The Spam Control Act Comes Into Effect |access-date=2008-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613100251/http://www.ida.gov.sg/News%20and%20Events/20070608182820.aspx?getPagetype=20 |archive-date=2008-06-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|South Africa}}||Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002||§&nbsp;45||||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/a25-02.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-04-21 |archive-date=2016-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205013837/http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/a25-02.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|South Africa}}||Consumer Protection Act, 2008||§&nbsp;11||October 2010||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/32186_467_0.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-04-21 |archive-date=2016-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205020502/http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/32186_467_0.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|South Korea}}||Act on Promotion of Information and Communication and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection||Art.&nbsp;50||||<ref>[https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=38422&lang=ENG Korea Legislation Research Institute, Korea Law Translation Center. Statutes of the Republic of Korea]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Spain}}||Act 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce
||||||<ref name=oecd/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.agpd.es/upload/Ley_34-2002_LSSI_ingles.pdf |title=Act 34/2002 |access-date=2008-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109203433/https://www.agpd.es/upload/Ley_34-2002_LSSI_ingles.pdf |archive-date=2008-11-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Sweden}}||Marknadsföringslagen (1995:450)<br /> ''"Swedish Marketing Act"''||§&nbsp;13b||
||<ref name=oecd/><ref>[http://www.notisum.se/rnp/sls/lag/19950450.HTM Swedish Marketing Act]</ref><ref name="The Marketing Act">[http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/05/02/95/d1c2a1bf.pdf The Marketing Act]</ref>
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|||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Switzerland}}||Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (2007)||Art.&nbsp;3, Buchst.&nbsp;o||
||<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19860391/index.html | title=SR 241 Bundesgesetz vom 19. Dezember 1986 gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG)}}</ref>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Turkey}}||Elektronik Ticaretin Düzenlenmesi Hakkında Kanun <br /> ''"Act About Regulation of E-Commerce"''||||
||<ref name=oecd/><ref>[http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2014/11/20141105-1.htm Act About Regulation of E-Commerce]</ref><ref name="The Marketing Act"/>
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|Ukraine}}|| &nbsp;<!-- TODO --> ||||||
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|United Kingdom}}||Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003||||||
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|style="background:red"|&nbsp; ||style="text-align:left"|{{flag|United States}}|| [[CAN-SPAM Act of 2003|Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003]] (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003)||All||16 December 2003 ||<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legalarchiver.org/cs.htm |title=CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 |access-date=2008-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213043751/http://legalarchiver.org/cs.htm |archive-date=2016-02-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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== See also ==
* [[Email spam]]
* Spamming
* Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
* List of countries by number of Internet users

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://tristan.aubrey-jones.com/?p=30 Piercing the Corporate Veil and Corporate Groups]

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