Singapore Passes Anti-Spam Law With Fines as High as $650,000

ChinaByte, June 9th news (translated by Lao Shen) According to foreign media reports, the Singaporean government announced on Friday that the country's anti-spam law will take effect next week. This city-state hopes to control unsolicited advertising emails.

The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts of Singapore stated in a press release that according to the newly enacted law, if the court determines that advertisers in Singapore are guilty of sending spam emails, violators will be fined one million Singapore dollars (657,000 US dollars).

A government agency in Singapore said: "The new law will provide a regulatory framework for better handling mass-initiated commercial electronic messages, which are commonly known as spam emails."

The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts also pointed out that the new law aims to address this growing global issue of spam emails. The Singaporean anti-spam law will take effect on June 15th.

To date, countries that have issued anti-spam laws include the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Australia.