CRTC Tweaks Anti-Spam Regulations

Final regulations made by the CRTC under Canada's Anti-Spam Law (CASL) include a number of revisions that respond to concerns raised by Canadian businesses; but while some additional flexibility has been provided, the Commission appears to have left a number of other concerns unanswered.

On 7 March 2012, the CRTC registered its Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC), a final version of draft regulations that were originally proposed in June 2011.  Those regulations, and the related Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations that were proposed by Industry Canada, attracted significant criticism from the business community, which expressed concern that the regulations omitted some important clarifications of the requirements of the law, failed to provide exemptions for certain business and behaviours that should not be caught by the legislation and imposed unworkable and unnecessary requirements that may have had a disproportionate impact on technologies