Australia: New rules for restricting access to age restricted content

New rules for restricting access to age restricted content (commercial MA15+ content and R18+ content) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia will commence from 20 January 2008.
The new rules made by ACMA on 20 December 2007 are specified in the Restricted Access System Declaration 2007 (PDF 38 kb, Word 127 kb), and […]

Australia: Company issued with a $ 149,600 penalty for ‘missed call’ marketing

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued DC Marketing Europe Limited with an Infringement Notice, carrying a penalty of $149,600, for extensive breaches of the Spam Act 2003. The penalty is the largest issued by ACMA since the Spam Act’s penalty provisions came into force in April 2004.
ACMA penalised DC Marketing for 102 […]