Laws about online faxing

With more and more people switching to online faxing as a means of replacing the traditional fax machines, the strict legislation that governs faxing in general can also be transcribed to online faxing itself. Online faxing has facilitated and sped up the process of sending faxes, which is great for the individual user or business, but this also benefits people who want to send faxes that you did not intend to receive.

Like e-mail, online faxing can enable someone to “spam” your inbox with online faxes. To avoid this, the authorities have laid out a strict set of laws that govern and control the process of sending online faxes. Imagine as a spammer, online faxing enables you to send hundreds of faxes out at once. You are not required to sit by a machine and individually feed in each fax, being forced to load paper into the machine every time that you want to send a new fax. Now, a spammer only needs to copy and paste a group of fax numbers into a box, and click the submit button, to have the system automatically send the same fax message to all the recipient fax numbers on the list.

Companies are implementing strict regulations to ensure that this does not happen with the use of their fax service. When you opt to go with one online fax provider, they have clearly outlined rules on how you are able to use their service to send a fax online, while emphasizing that they do not support spamming. It is just one more way that online fax providers are attempting to protect you as the consumer from unsolicited faxes.