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Canadian anti-spam legislation

By Stringer LLP | 4 Minutes Read August 25, 2014

How to avoid employer liability under Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation

Your employee is on Facebook over her lunch break, when she notices that her friend’s brother is the President of a start-up that could likely use your company’s services. She retrieves his email address from Facebook and sends him an email from her company email account, looking to arrange a coffee meeting to catch up and perhaps talk business. This scenario is one of many vulnerabilities facing Canadian employers since the coming into force of the new Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation

Article by Stringer LLP / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Privacy / Anti-spam, Business, Canadian anti-spam legislation, CEMs, civil litigation, commercial electronic messages, company email account, consent, Consent must be explicit, contact information, distribution list, electronic business communications not consented to by their recipient, electronic communications, email, Employer liability, employment law, marketing, mass email marketing, opt-in, opt-out, penalties and civil liability, social media platforms, spam, unsubscribe link requirement

By Adam Gorley | 4 Minutes Read December 11, 2013

Industry Canada announces effective dates of anti-spam legislation

After three years of waiting, Industry Canada has finalized the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations and set a date for Canada's anti-spam legislation to come into force. Canada's anti-spam legislation will be phased in over four years starting July 1, 2014—seven short months from now.

Article by Adam Gorley / Business, Not for Profit, Privacy / Anti-spam, anti-spam law, anti-spam regulations, business-to-business communications, Canadian anti-spam legislation, CASL, CEM, commercial electronic message, commercial electronic message exceptions, compliance date, consent, Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations, exceptions, express consent, FAPP, Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, Finance and Accounting PolicyPro, Industry Canada, legal compliance, Operations and Marketing PolicyPro, opt-in, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA, private right of action, sending commercial electronic messages, spam

By Adam Gorley | 3 Minutes Read January 16, 2013

Anti-spam legislation: Time to act on commercial electronic communications

It feels like we've been saying this for years now, but, as we reported again last Monday. Canadian businesses can expect new legislation governing commercial electronic communication and spam in the coming months.

Article by Adam Gorley / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Privacy / anti-spam legislation, anti-spam regulations, Business, Canadian anti-spam legislation, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CEMs, commercial electronic message, commercial electronic messages, compliance, compliance plan, consent, CRTC, electronic commerce, email, express consent, implied consent, Industry Canada, mechanism to unsubscribe, online, spam

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