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Article: Japanese New Anti-Spam Law.(Law overview)
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- July 31, 2008
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Special thanks to two of our summer associates Isaac Raskin Young and Charles A.Karwowski-Hoppel, who worked dilgently on this alert.
The spam problem in Japan has evolved rapidly over the past few years. As late as 2004, the vast majority of spam was sent to mobile phones rather than PCs. This is no longer true: Japan has been largely successful in its efforts to reduce mobile spam; however, spam sent to PCs has exploded and now constitutes the vast majority of spam in Japan. In 2006, close to 90% of spam in Japan was sent to PCs (it was less than 30% in 2004).1 Of the spam sent to PCs, more than 90% was advertisements for matchmaking (dating) sites, 2% ...