Canada Eyes World Treaty to Deal with Spammers
Tue May 11, 2004 03:45 PM ET
By Gilbert Le Gras

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Countries may need international treaties to deal with large-scale computer spam, because individual governments cannot deal with the problem by themselves, Canada said on Tuesday.

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Canada's Industry Minister Lucienne Robillard told Reuters there was an urgent need for an international effort, perhaps a treaty, that might even include the extradition of suspected large-scale spammers.

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Fraudulent e-mails designed to draw credit card and bank details from Internet users passed the three billion mark in April, according to San Francisco-based Brightmail, one of the largest spam e-mail filtering firms.
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Officials said the treaty idea is also being discussed at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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