Privacy law in Canada is increasingly important and increasingly
complex. Understanding how privacy law affects your business is
crucial to maintaining good relations with your clients, and
regulatory authorities and the general public. To help you stay on
top of this essential area, new developments in three critical
areas—spam protection, protected activity and access to
information requests – are outlined below.
CANADA'S ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION WILL SOON BE IN
FORCE – ARE YOU READY?
Unwanted electronic communications, or spam, accounts for a
majority of the electronic communications being transmitted on the
Internet, clogging the flow of ecommerce. As businesses become more
reliant on the Internet for all facets of commerce, including
marketing, sales, fulfillment and customer service, threats to the
network such as spam and spyware can have a real impact on the
bottom line.
