Scotch Spam good for your health!

Whilst driving on the M40 on Tuesday I was listening to BBC 5 Live and heard the interview with Mr Gordon Dick who has recently sued Transcom for sending unsolicited email. Mr Dick was awarded £750 damages plus legal cost and is being described as a landmark ruling in the fight against spam. The news was also reported in The Times and has now spread online with sites such as Adinuff reporting on the story (also provides a useful link on how to avoid spam).

Mr Dick has subsequently set-up a website www.scotchspam.co.uk to advise individuals on how to prepare a legal case against companies including sample letters to download. For those who remember, this now has real similarities with the (in)famous Stephen Hone case, who is credited with starting the campaign against excessive bank charges with his site www.penaltycharges.co.uk.

It will be interesting to see if this news catches the public imagination in a similar way to the bank charges story and whether we will now start to see individuals becoming increasingly prepared to take action against companies who flaunt (knowingly or not) the wide range of web compliance  legislation.