Australia Spam Act 2003
Statute
Australia
· 2003
The Spam Act prohibits sending commercial electronic messages to Australian addresses without consent, requires accurate sender identification and a functional unsubscribe honoured within five working days, and is enforced by ACMA with civil penalties that have repeatedly run into the millions. It sits between CAN-SPAM's opt-out permissiveness and CASL's strictness, and ACMA enforces it more consistently than either.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.