Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) has been a long time
coming. The Government of Canada announced today that most
of CASL's provisions will enter into force on July 1,
2014. That will be 10 years from the time the
Government of Canada launched its Anti-Spam Action Plan.
In recent years, a steadily increasing number
of organizations within and outside Canada have been
monitoring CASL's status. Among the reasons:
CASL is a new regime, contains a private right of
action, provides for significant administrative monetary
penalties (maximum $10 million), and is broader in scope than the
anti-spam laws of the US and other countries.
Some organizations have already begun to take steps and adopt
practices intended to allow them to comply with CASL.
