Interesting articles for April 19th
SendGrid Account Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange Ongoing attacks against ESPs prove they are still high value targets for scammers. New York Times Bits blog
Interesting articles for this week
Court upholds FTC sanctions against affiliate marketers. Large scale spammer LeadClick Media has to pay $16 million. Press release CRTC, Competition Bureau Enforcement Actions Show Anti-Spam Law Has Teeth Michael Geist summarizes the first three cases to be...
CASL Draws Third Blood
Plentyoffish Media Inc. pays $48,000 for alleged violation of Canada's anti-spam law March 25, 2015 – Ottawa–Gatineau – Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today...
CASL Draws Second Blood
Competition Bureau takes $30,000,000 CASL action against Avis and Budget March 11, 2015 — Ottawa, ON — Competition Bureau The Competition Bureau has taken action against what it considers to be deceptive marketing practices by two of Canada’s largest rental car...
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...
