CAUCE NORTH AMERICA NEWS, Vol 14, No 5, 04 2013

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CAUCE News, Volume 14, Number 5
December 04, 2013


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CANADA'S ANTI-SPAM LAW COMING INTO FORCE JULY 01, 2014

Canada's Anti-Spam Law, CASL, is now a done deal.

Last Thursday, the [6]Treasury Board of Canada President (and champion
of CASL) [7]Tony Clement approved [8]Industry Canada's regulations in
their finalized form. These will be published in [9]The Canada Gazette
December 18, 2013.

Today, Canadian Minister of Industry the Honourable [10]James Moore
announced CASL will come into force in July 01, 2014.

Bringing CASL into being has been an arduous, but meticulously thorough
consultative process. Beginning in May 2004 with the [11]Federal Task
Force on Spam, The Government of Canada, with input from hundreds of
stakeholders with an interest in safe and responsible online messaging
have worked tirelessly to develop and deploy the world's most
[12]stringent and comprehensive anti-spam law.

In keeping with the long-standing Canadian tradition of having
[13]opt-in consent, Canada can now claim to have nec-plus-ultra
enforceable standards to which legitimate commercial email will be
held.

"CASL makes Canada a place where abusive messaging will no longer be
tolerated; it provides a toolkit to protect lawful businesses and
consumers from the bad actors ruining the online experience of
millions, by putting a hard stop to email spam and all types of
messaging abuse, while laying out clear and workable standards for
proper opt-in online marketing" said CAUCE president John Levine.

CAUCE founders [14]Chris Lewis, John Levine and Neil Schwartzman have
worked on advocating for spam laws since 1997. CAUCE has been working
on a Canadian anti-spam law for sixteen years.

"This is a banner day for the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
Email. CAUCE regards the safety of Internet users as paramount;
Canadians will now enjoy a online ecosystem protected by CASL" said
Neil Schwartzman, Executive Director of CAUCE.

CAUCE Directors have been integral throughout the process : Matt
Vernhout joined the fight on the Task Force on Spam in 2004, Shaun
Brown accomplished much through his many years of work on the spam law
portfolio at Industry Canada.

Don Blumenthal was consulted on how to design a Spam Freezer in 2006.
Dennis Dayman, along with Mr. Vernhout, spoke on behalf of CAUCE at a
parliamentary committee reviewing CASL in 2011.

Ultimately, advocating for CASL was a group effort by many individuals
throughout Canada and indeed the rest of the world.

CAUCE now looks forward to a betterment of electronic messaging by a
fair but aggressive application of the law by the three agencies tasked
with enforcement of CASL: [15]The Competition Bureau of Canada, The
[16]Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the [17]Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

PDF of CASL Timeline

[18]Download CASL Rollup
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Coverage of CASL Coming Into Force July 01, 2014

Government of Canada Announcement - [19]Harper Government Delivers on
Commitment to Protect Canadian Consumers from Spam

Backgrounder : [20]Building Consumer Trust in the Online Marketplace

[21]Industry Canada #CASL Regulations Published

[22]Industry Canada #CASL Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement

Shaun Brown at nNovation [23]Industry Canada finalizes regulations
under CASL

Dennis Dayman at Deliverability.com [24]Canada's Anti-Spam Law is a
Done Deal

Clea Manchester at Return Path [25]CASL Will Take Effect July 2014

[26]Imagine Canada Applauds Anti-spam Exemption for Charities

[27]CMA welcomes anti-spam rules

Chamber of Commerce Unhappy. [28]New Anti-spam Rules Remain a Concern
for the Canadian Business Community

#CASL [29]The Ten Million Dollar Spam Law - EmailSkinny

#CASL [30]Canada's Anti-SPAM Law Coming Into Force June 2014 - LisTrak

[31]Canada's Anti-Spam Law to Come into Force on July 1, 2014 - Time to
Get Ready! bennettjones

[32]Canada announces CASL regulation start date @#wordtothewise #CASL

Older news
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'Dun & Bradstreet' Malware Email

I just received this email ostensibly from business reputation firm Dub
& Bradstreet. The fact that I don't actually have a business at present
time didn't escape me, but the verbiage of the email is compelling, and
I can see why someone might inadvisedly click on the attachement I
carefully...

Read more: [33]'Dun & Bradstreet' Malware Email
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The DMA Spams A Bunch of Anti-spammers

On Saturday, October 26, around 9:00 a.m. in the morning, The American
Direct Marketing Association sent out an email to a list that was
clearly purchased. It was sent by way of Yesmail, data broker InfoUSA's
email wing. Here's the payload of the spam: We know it to be spam...

Read more: [34]The DMA Spams A Bunch of Anti-spammers

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