Showing posts with label Canada's Anti-SPAM Law (CASL). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada's Anti-SPAM Law (CASL). Show all posts
Monday, August 08, 2022

Video: OPC Finding: Spam messages sent by COVID testing contractor

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The Privacy Commissioner of Canada just released a report of findings about a company contracted by the Airport of Montreal to do on-arr...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Video: Canada's Anti-Spam Law and the installation of software

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Canada’s anti-spam law is about much more than just spam. It also regulates the installation of software. Like the rest of the law, it is ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

CRTC finds CASL to be constitutional in CompuFinder challenge

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On October 19, 2017, the CRTC issued its decision in a constitutional challenge to CASL brought by CompuFinder. You may recall that in 2015,...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Canadian government pulls the plug on the Canadian Anti-Spam Law private right of action

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It's official ... the ability to sue for damages under Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) has been put on ice. An order-in-council dated ...

CASL's civil right of action to be delayed?

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I am hearing from reliable sources that the government has agreed to postpone the civil right of action under Canada's Anti-spam Law. Th...
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Thursday, March 05, 2015

CRTC issues first CASL penalty: $1.1 million levied against Compu-Finder

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The CRTC has levied its first penalty under Canada's Anti-spam Law (CASL): a whopping $1.1 million against Compu-Finder for sending comm...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Pre-installed adware may be kosher under Canadian anti-spyware provisions of CASL

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The Next Web is reporting that Lenovo has been shipping consumer laptops pre-equipped with adware (see: Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On N...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Presentation on the new software installation rules in Canada's Anti-spam Law

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I was pleased to deliver an online Hangout On Air about CASL's new software installation rules on behalf of both Digital Nova Scotia and...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Two weeks until the Canadian Bar Association 5th Annual Privacy and Access Law Symposium

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Only a short time until the Canadian Bar Association's 5th Annual Privacy and Access Law Symposium in Ottawa at the end of the month. T...
Friday, October 03, 2014

Presentation: Canada's Anti-spam Law and School Boards

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Later today, I'll be giving a presentation to the Nova Scotia School Boards Association on Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) and how it ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Presentation: Canada's Anti-spam Law and non-profits/charities

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I just had the pleasure of speaking at a joint meeting of the Canadian Bar Association (Nova Scotia)'s privacy and charities sections on...

Presentation: Canada's Anti-spam law and University Conference Services

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I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the annual conference of the Canadian University and College Conference Organizers Associati...
Monday, June 23, 2014

The New Canadian Anti-SPAM Law and Your Business

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This morning, I hosted an online webinar entitled The New Canadian Anti-SPAM Law and Your Business . We did it using Google's Hangout On...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Presentation on Canada's new Anti-Spam law

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For the lawyers who read this blog, this topic may be getting tired but I'm regularly confronted by business folks who have heard very l...
Friday, April 04, 2014

PIPEDA amendments coming next week to a Parliament near you

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In a speech at the Digital Canada 150 Launch, Industry Minister James Moore hinted very strongly that amendments to Canada's private sec...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Geist: Are Canada’s digital laws unconstitutional?

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Michael Geist's regular column in the Toronto Star is very interesting this week. It highlights that the recent decision of the Canadian...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Political parties can spam you as much as they want

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I was contacted this week by a reporter from the Toronto Star inquiring about the legality of Members of Parliament adding constituents'...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Canada's anti-spam act passes and receives royal assent

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Bill C-28, Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, also known as the anti-spam act, has passed through the sentate and received royal assen...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Canada's Anti-Spam Act back on the order paper

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Bill C-28, called the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (or, more formally: An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the C...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

What's new in the anti-spam bill?

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Since my redline of the PIPEDA amendments seemed to be of interest to readers of the blog, I thought readers may also be interested to see ...