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The Act on Combating Abuses in Electronic Communication: new obligations for telecommunications operators and e-mail providers
While the act was enacted in full over a long period (starting on the next day after promulgation and continuing for twelve months from the day it took effect), the obligations under the new legislation will mostly begin to apply from 25 September 2023.
The main premise of the legislation is to combat abuses in electronic communication, defined as generating artificial traffic, smishing, CLI spoofing, and unauthorized change of details of address.
The task of combating abuses in electronic communication will mainly fall to telecommunications operators, and their new obligations will include:
Author: Marcin Ręgorowicz, Piotr Konieczny
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- blocking text messages that qualify as smishing;
- blocking text messages purporting to be from a public institution (name of sender);
- blocking certain calls or the concealing of caller ID from the end user.
Author: Marcin Ręgorowicz, Piotr Konieczny