Tag: Permission standards

It’s time to consider non-users

23 August 2016 2 comments Article Industry

A joint investigation by the Canadian and Australian governments has [acp author=”Offices of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Australian Privacy Commissioner” title=”PIPEDA Report of Findings #2016-005: Joint Investigation of Ashley Madison by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Australian Privacy Commissioner/Acting Australian Information Commissioner” id=”OPCCAPC-01″ year=”2016″ month=”August” day=”22″ year_access=”2016″ month_access=”August” day_access=”23″ url=”https://www.priv.gc.ca/cf-dc/2016/2016_005_0822_e.asp”]released Read More

CASL Loophole?

9 December 2013 0 comments Article Law

In looking at the new regulatory framework for CASL which was just released late on Tuesday of last week by [acp title=”CASL81000-2-175 (SOR/DORS)” author=”Industry Canada” media=”website” year=”2013″ month=”December” day=”3″ id=”IC_CASL-01″ url=”http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/00273.html”]{author}[/acp], I noticed a this bit: 3. Section 6 of the Act does not apply to a commercial electronic message… (f) if the person who sends Read More

Canada’s anti-spam law: Does it apply to me?

30 March 2011 0 comments Article Law

Lots of time and space has been dedicated to an examination of Canada’s new anti-spam law. And we have been watching it too. For a general overview of the law, I would suggest reading [acp author=”Al Iverson” day=”17″ month=”December” year=”2010″ url=”http://www.exacttarget.com/blog/canadas-anti-spam-bill-c-28-becomes-law/” media=”blog” publisher=”ExactTarget” title=”Canada’s Anti-Spam Bill (C-28) Becomes Law”]{author}’s {publisher} blog post[/acp] about it. Today, Read More

You call it “Appending,” they call it “Epending,” I call it “Evil”

1 November 2010 0 comments Article Spam

It’s been a long week and you’re relaxing at the local watering hole. Someone comes over and strikes up a conversation with you and the two of you end up spending the next hour together. Nothing happens and you are okay with that. Perhaps they weren’t really your type, but when they asked for your Read More

Prior Business Relationships are irrelevant

7 October 2008 0 comments Article Law

When people don’t want to get permission to send mail, they usually don’t want to do other things as well. For instance, they don’t want to offer a way to unsubscribe. They want to make it easy to start and hard to stop. Unfortunately, CAN-SPAM decrees it should be easy to stop mail. And so Read More