That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows: Pending legislation always makes good fodder for lawyers to comment on in annual predictions articles. The pending anti-spam legislation has resulted in several such comments. In my predictions article scheduled for publication next week, I comment that: The Federal anti-spam legislation that [...]
January 4th, 2012 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. The draft regulations under the anti-spam legislation have attracted a lot of comments, most them negative. See this article by Lorne Salzman and Barry Sookman for a detailed summary. In essence, the common theme is that the legislation and draft regs will [...]
September 21st, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
Section 230 of Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. 230) shields Yahoo’s spam filtering efforts Holomaxx v. Yahoo, 2011 WL 865794 (N.D.Cal. March 11, 2011) Plaintiff provides email marketing services for its clients. It sends out millions of emails a day, many of those to recipients having Yahoo email addresses. Yahoo used its spam filtering technology [...]
March 24th, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw, Internet | No Comments
For the London Free Press. March 21, 2011 Read this on Canoe The anti-spam bill — Bill C-28 — was passed in December and is expected to be in force later this year. The main goal of the Act is the prevention of spam, but it also contains anti-spyware provisions. Canadian software creators — indeed [...]
March 21st, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
For the London Free Press – March 7, 2011 Read this on Canoe The anti-spam bill — Bill C-28 — was recently passed, and will be in force this year. It gives new tools to fight spam, but unfortunately defines spam so broadly that it will affect how most organizations conduct business. Businesses can’t just [...]
March 7th, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. I just finished listening to another IT-Can teleconference on the anti-spam act, this one presented by Barry Sookman and Lorne Salzman of McCarthy Tetrault. For those wanting more detail, slides will be posted soon on the IT-Can website, the McCarthy Tetrault website, [...]
January 26th, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. I just listened to a teleseminar by the Canadian IT-Law Association on the Anti-spam act, primarily discussing the CRTC’s role. Here are a few points that were raised. The act is expected to come into force in September. Regulations may be published [...]
January 19th, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows: The anti-spam bill – Bill C-28 – was recently passed, and is expected to be in force sometime later this year. If you think it won’t affect you because you don’t send mass emails trying to sell random products, and don’t infest [...]
January 12th, 2011 | Posted in CyberLaw, Internet | No Comments
For the London Free Press – December 13, 2010 Read this on Canoe Proposed legislation could have major implications for businesses, consumers Development and innovation of technology inevitably breeds new laws to regulate that technology. For lawyers practising Information Technology law, there is a considerable amount of potential new law to digest. For example, Bill [...]
December 13th, 2010 | Posted in CyberLaw, copyright | No Comments
Take a look at this post entitled Don’t Let Halloween Haunt You for examples of spam messages to avoid in case they get through your filters.
As I’ve said before, be skeptical about communications that carry either really good news, really …
October 21st, 2010 | Posted in CyberLaw | No Comments