The country is adopting the London Action Plan on Spam
Enforcement Collaboration. The Plan calls for increased
investigative training, the establishment of points of contact in
each agency to respond quickly and effectively to enforcement
inquiries, and the creation of an international working group on
spam enforcement.
China's representative in the London Action Plan will be Union
Network Beijing, a body mandated by the Chinese Government to
enforce its recent anti-spam law and to combat the spread of
computer viruses.
The London Action Plan was launched after a conference on spam
enforcement hosted jointly by the UK Office of Fair Trading and the
US Federal Trade Commission in London in October 2004. It was
the first international forum to focus exclusively on spam
enforcement.
It now comprises over 30 consumer protection, data protection,
and telecommunications agencies and more than a dozen private
sector representatives, spanning four continents. Its most recent
campaign was operation Spam Zombies, part of a worldwide effort to
prevent hijacking of computers by spammers without the users'
knowledge. Letters were sent by 20 members of the London
Action Plan and 16 additional government agencies to more than
3,000 ISPs,
encouraging them to take zombie-prevention measures.
