PROTECTION Data is the competent authority in Spain since last year to monitor compliance
prohibiting spam. Both agencies began a long line of mutual cooperation to combat this illegal and abusive practice that is hindering the normal development of the Internet as a fundamental tool of the Information Society.

Within this cooperation is part of the signing of this agreement or Administrative Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the English terminology that facilitates the actions of both agencies in their cross-border collaboration.

FTC commissioners, chaired by Deborah Platt Majoras, and the director of the DPA, Jose Luis Pinar, met this day for that purpose at the headquarters of the agency in Washington DC. This agreement is in line with other similar instruments of cooperation that the FTC had previously signed with Canada, Australia, Mexico and United Kingdom.

Data Protection Agency announced shortly in several Spanish companies sanctions of 30,000 euros each for sending e-mails were not requested advertising (spam) indiscriminately, as announced by the director of the organization, Jose Luis Pinar.
These are the first actions of the Spanish Agency in this matter, which will be accompanied in the coming days for inclusion on the Web Data Protection Guide to Fight Spam.

Spain is one of the few countries in the world that has been entrusted to the Data Protection combat spam, alongside the United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. These four countries have signed an agreement in which United States is also to combat Internet advertising is not required.

Pinar added in this context that “there is a long way to go in the fight against spam, while also predict that the agency will impose many fines against this practice in the coming months, after assuming jurisdiction recently.