CASL Draws First Blood
CRTC Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer issues $1.1 million penalty to Compu-Finder for spamming Canadians March 5, 2015 – Ottawa-Gatineau - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC’s) Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer today...
New Zealand fines a spammer $12,000
Last July the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs took spammer Zeljko Aksentijevic to court for violating their anti-spam law. Today the court fined him $12,000 for sending 2,230 illegal commercial messages. This is the first case in NZ where a spammer has...
Can big companies stop being hacked?
The recent huge security breach at Sony caps a bad year for big companies, with breaches at Target, Apple, Home Depot, P.F.Chang's, Neiman Marcus, and no doubt other companies who haven't admitted it yet. Is this the new normal? Is there any hope for our private data?...
CASL Comes into Force
We (Chris Lewis, John Levine, and myself) founded CAUCE CANADA November 30, 1998, Our dream of a Canadian anti-spam law was realized today, July 01, 2014, some 15 years and seven months later. The process was arduous, fraught with fits and starts, setbacks and goals...
Canada’s Anti Spam Law Regarding Addresses On This Site
By accessing cauce.org you do not have permission to send messages containing offers, promotions, or marketing of any kind to any email address posted on this site.
Official Documents Related to Canada’s Anti-Spam Law
May 2005 Stopping Spam: Creating a Stronger, Safer Internet Task Force on SpamMay 2005 Recommended Best Practices for Email Marketing Task Force on Spam December 15, 2010 An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain...
Why do we accept $10 security on $1,000,000 data?
Last week we heard of yet another egregious security breach at an online provider, as crooks made off with the names, address, and birth dates of eBay users, along with encrypted passwords. They suggest you change your password, which is likely a good idea, and you...
R.I.P. Gretchen Miller
I’m sorry to have to report that Gretchen, whom would know from Megapath, Time-Warner Cable, Road Runner, and AOL anti-abuse passed away earlier this week. The world is short a died-in-the-wool antispammer, and a kind and gentle person. Funeral arrangements are still...
The Crap They Sell Online
The Internet offers consumers a vast global marketplace, which is really cool. Personally, I like rare audio recordings by obscure artists, and the net comes to the rescue more often than not. And talk about the savings! I recently purchase a television wall-mount for...
Port25 Solutions Sponsors the Inbox Project
CAUCE, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, and the Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII) are pleased to welcome Port25 Solutions as the newest sponsor of the Inbox Project, http://www.inboxproject.org/. The Project provides an...
Opt-in At Gunpoint Isn’t Opt-in
There are loads of good reasons why you might want to require an address, and confirm it, when someone is signing up for your WIFI service. However, one of them is NEVER ‘so we can send you unwanted spam’. Like this one : I encountered this silly approach to...
Russian Cybercrime
Speaking as a Canadian, Sochi was pretty nice. However, in terms of cybercrime, NBC recently published a report which sums it up pretty well : Skilled, Cheap Russian Hackers Power American Cybercrime The following clip is from a remarkable documentary called...
