If the Council wins on data retention and the Parliament wins by allowing spam, then the only loser will be the customer -- twice over.

There are 18 million businesses in Europe: do you contact each company individually? Is there one opt-out list? Are there competing opt-out lists? They simply don't know how this would work. It is fairly obvious that a global opt-off list won't work. It has already been a failure in the U.S.

Joe Mcnamee

Permission-based marketing is the way forward.

Joe Mcnamee