The government of Taiwan is actively looking into enacting legislation in response to the problems associated with spam. The Legislative Yuan has scheduled a series of public hearings on the subject, the Executive Yuan's Council of Economic Planning and Development has commissioned a report on international governmental responses, the government has begun drafting potential legislation and a delegation of Taiwan authorities will attend the OECD conference on spam in Brussels on February 2 – 3, 2004. This update summarizes the issues as they pertain to Taiwan.
The Need for Spam Legislation
The first step in enacting spam legislation is to determine which problems the law will seek to redress. Few would disagree that spam is problematic, but it causes different problems for different entities. For recipients spam is an annoyance, often contains offensive or fraudulent content, consumes bandwidth and computer storage space, takes time to delete, delays delivery of messages and causes
