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Canada Strikes at Spam

By Michael Geist and Steven Salkin
May 25, 2005

Canada's national spam task force delivered its report on May 17 to Industry Minister David Emerson. Internet Law & Strategy Board of Editors member Michael Geist was a member of the task force and served as the co-chair of the law and regulatory working group.

Geist will have more to say about the task force report soon, but he wanted to want to comment on the law and enforcement recommendations, which will likely generate the most amount of interest. The task force helped facilitate a series of cases (including my own privacy complaint against the Ottawa Renegades over unsolicited commercial e-mail they sent me) to test the current Canadian legal framework. Quite simply, the task force concluded that the current laws are not good enough. While Canada alone is not able to deal with the spam problem, it must at least deal with the spammers in our own backyard. The current legal framework contains some significant holes and the recommendations call for a spam-specific law accompanied by a new separate body to work on policy and enforcement coordination.

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