RIP and children (It's all Ross Anderson's Fault)

[Quentin Campbell]

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> From: Mary Hawking [mailto:maryhawking@tigers.demon.co.uk]=20
> Sent: 21 March 2002 22:48
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: RIP and children (It's all Ross Anderson's Fault)
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> Please remind me of the *legal* definition of "harrassment".=20
> If anyone=20
> knows of any legislation regarding the spaming of unwilling=20
> recipients=20
> of text message recipients, I'd be grateful for a URL

Mary

See definitions in the "Protection from Harassment Act 1997" at
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1997/1997040.htm.

As I recall there are something like 6 arrestable offences defined. This
Act has been successfully used against at least one student who had been
sending anonymous e-mail to fellow students and staff. By "successfully
used" I mean that the Police fealt able to move quickly to arrest, hold
and caution the student as soon as he had been identified as the likely
sender of the messages.=20

Quentin
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