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...candidates for E.U. membership. A breach too far Britain's Inland Revenue service suspended its online tax filing system after security breaches allowed users to view other people's information. The problems put a serious dent in plans to make online filing for employers mandatory by 2010. War on spam Fresh from his battle with Merrill Lynch, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing companies that send spam, or unsolicited junk e-mail. Going even further in this latest global conflict, the E.U.'s new privacy law bans all firms from sending spam. BOTTOM LINES...
...birds have to be fed, housed and trained not to overfly important local politicians?all of which cost a cash-strapped government $114,500 a year. Nevertheless, some of their less-advanced attributes will surely be missed: pigeons rarely crash, can't forward annoying knock-knock jokes, don't spam you with unwanted junk mail and never carry viruses. Well, not usually...
...Dutch are using a more innovative technique for discouraging cell-phone thieves. In Amsterdam, police spam stolen cell phones with short message service (SMS) technology. When a victim reports a theft, police take the number and send an SMS message every three to five minutes to the stolen phone. It says: "You are in possession of a stolen cell phone. Did you know that stealing a cell phone is a crime punishable by imprisonment? Using a stolen cell phone is too, and you are risking a prison term of one year...
Therein lies the future of e-mail. Spam messages aimed at attracting customers are ineffective; people are even less likely to respond to e-mail from unfamiliar sources than they are to answer paper junk mail. Jupiter Media Metrix, based in New York City, estimates that marketers pay $125 to attract each new customer using e-mail and only $66 using direct mail. But customers are more receptive to firms they already do business with. Inducing an existing customer to make a new purchase costs $6 using e-mail, vs. $18 for direct mail. Says Jared Blank, a digital-commerce...
...spokesperson Nicholas J. Graham said the service did not reject any Harvard admissions decisions as “spam...