Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
To quickly follow up, before the thread gets presumably closed for being way off topic: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: The Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC)

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Jude Robinson
Paul Collins wrote: Could anyone tell me if I'm right or wrong and if possible give me some credible links to back this up? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/26/prior_consent_does_not_mean/ Kind of right, kind of wrong :) ** The discuss

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Richard Czeiger wrote: I agree - I think the areas of "Web Standards" and "Best Practices" should go side by side. If one country has decided to actually legislate on something then it's at least worth discussing. I fail to see how the UK's "anti-spam law" is relevant to web standards...but n

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Street
Just out of curiosity, what about "Tick this box if you don't want to receive massive amounts of spam"? Is it really anti-checked box, or anti-default-opt-in? Seems pretty... open to abuse and/or re-interpretation, unless it's the latter. On 1/31/06, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 31 Jan 2006, at 12:33 am, Paul Collins wrote: I recall reading somewhere a while back that UK law states you can't have a check box ticked on a form EG - "untick this box if you don't want to receive emails" would be illegal for a UK site. That would be European Community law, not onl

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Richard Czeiger
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law) I believe this question would fall within the scope of this group. Anyway I would be very interested to know the answer to this, with a link to the related legislation. Giles

Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
I believe this question would fall within the scope of this group. Anyway I would be very interested to know the answer to this, with a link to the related legislation. Giles Clark wrote: Paul, I think you are way off topic here. If you want to contact me directly I'd be happy to help [

RE: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Giles Clark
Paul,   I think you are way off topic here. If you want to contact me directly I'd be happy to help   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Paul CollinsSent: 30 January 2006 15:33To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubj