The Congressional Internet Caucus will team up with the British All Party Parliamentary Internet Group in a bid to help sock spam a little harder.
The two groups plan to tighten communication between the United States and Britain on such things as e-commerce and reviewing and tightening spam-fighting laws, according to All Party Parliamentary Internet Group chairman Derek Wyatt.
"We'll share best practices on spam," he told ZDNet's British division. "And we'll be having a joint meeting every year either here or over there. That will really help to beat things like spam and spim (spam over instant messaging)."
Wyatt, in fact, plans to introduce a rule bill in Parliament early next month to discuss updating the British Computer Misuse Act, part of his group's push to criminalize denial-of-service attacks and hacking crimes that might originate with spam attachments. One ultimate aim: making computer hacking an extraditable crime.
The Congressional Internet Caucus, in its tenth year, includes 170 U.S. federal lawmakers and a broad advisory board said to include several prime technology companies. Among other issues, they address spam, online security, digital rights management, and wireless technology and products.
