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Year-end round-up

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Like most of you, I’m sure, I was extra busy before Christmas last year, and to top it all off, I got sick and had to leave some things unfinished. So I couldn’t bring you this brief round-up of things that happened in the last three months of 2011, much of which has to do with technology and how employers will use it to interact with employees and customers. But it’s a new year and I’ve recovered from my illness and my holidays, so without further ado…

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Tags: Anti-spam bill, Canadian anti-spam legislation, cloud computing, copyright, Copyright Modernization Act, ECPA, facebook, Facebook comments as evidence, Facebook evidence, FISA, just cause to quit, no reasonable alternative to leaving the employment, online sales, online targeting, online tracking, personal information, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA, profiling, public disclosure, social media, social networking, workplace conflict, Workplace Injury Tribunal
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Anti-spam bill returns to House

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Remember the ECPA, the proposed Electronic Commerce and Protection Act? It’s back, but with a gnarly new name: the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act.

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Tags: communications, ECPA, electronic commerce, FAPP, Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, Finance and Accounting PolicyPro, FIWA, marketing, OMPP, spam
Posted in Finance and Accounting, Internal Controls, IT, Privacy and Security | Make a Comment »

Another perspective on ECPA

Monday, November 16th, 2009

In a previous post, I commented that the Industry, Science and Technology Committee made relatively few amendments to Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA). Now, McCarthy Tétreault has analyzed the Committee’s changes, and concludes that, from its perspective, some but not all of the most troublesome aspects of the Bill have been amended.

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Tags: Anti-spam bill, Bill C-27, ECPA, Electronic Commerce Protection Act, email, Internal Controls, sales and marketing
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ECPA moving forward

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

The Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) may move out of committee with few amendments. Have critics been deterred by the National Do Not Call List debacle?

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Tags: DNCL, ECPA, Electronic Commerce Protection Act, national do not call list
Posted in Finance and Accounting, Internal Controls, IT, Privacy and Security | 2 Comments »

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