Canada's New Anti-Spam Legislation

James M. Fisher · Jun 13, 2014

Yesterday, I received an email from Microsoft Canada letting me know that Canada's new anti-spam legislation is coming into effect July 1st 2014. What I needed to do was to confirm I wanted to continue receiving email newsletters from them.
This was the first I had heard about the new legislation (but I am not 'up' on all the news anyway), so I looked into it. Here is the government website: About the Law - Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation

Here are some of the highlights:

When the new law is in force, it will generally prohibit the:

sending of commercial electronic messages without the recipient's consent (permission), including messages to email addresses and social networking accounts, and text messages sent to a cell phone;
alteration of transmission data in an electronic message which results in the message being delivered to a different destination without express consent;
installation of computer programs without the express consent of the owner of the computer system or its agent, such as an authorized employee;
use of false or misleading representations online in the promotion of products or services;
collection of personal information through accessing a computer system in violation of federal law (e.g. the Criminal Code of Canada); and
collection of electronic addresses by the use of computer programs or the use of such addresses, without permission (address harvesting).

bassfisher6522 · Jun 13, 2014

let me know how effective that actually is....we here (USA) have similar laws for both email phishing and phone telemarketers...they find a way to bypass the laws...

x BlueRobot · Jun 18, 2014

bassfisher6522 said:
let me know how effective that actually is....we here (USA) have similar laws for both email phishing and phone telemarketers...they find a way to bypass the laws...

I think that's the same with every country, you need to read the Terms and Conditions, you'll be providing consent through those conditions.

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