OECD Anti-Spam Toolkit

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), of which Canada is a member, has created an anti-spam toolkit "as the first step in a broader initiative to help policy makers, regulators and industry players orient their policies relating to spam solutions and restore trust in the Internet and e-mail".

The toolkit is broken down into sections on:

• Anti-Spam Regulation
• Enforcement
• Industry-Driven initiatives
• Anti-Spam Technologies
• Education and Awareness
• Co-operative Partnerships against spam
• Spam Measurement
• Global Co-operation & Concluding remarks
• Appendices

And last week, OECD governments approved a Recommendation on Cross-Border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws against Spam.

Earlier Library Boy posts on spam include:

• Canada Releases Spam Report (May 19, 2005)
• Follow-Up to Government Anti-Spam Task Force Report (May 23, 2005)
• Complete Guide to E-mail (October 16, 2005)
• New Website on Internet Scams and Fraud (November 23, 2005)
• Federal Trade Commission (U.S.) Releases Spam Filter Study (November 29, 2005)
• Federal Party Responses to Election Questionnaire on Info Issues (January 17, 2006)