Post Tagged with: "spam"

Spam Task Force Delivers Report to Government

Canada’s national spam task force today delivered its report to Industry Minister David Emerson. I was a member of the task force and served as the co-chair of the law and regulatory working group.

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May 17, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

Five Months

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada yesterday released the summary of her finding in my spam case launched against the Ottawa Renegades. My case is now Finding #297 and, true to form, the Renegades are now just an unnamed sports organization. While I am pleased with the outcome of the case […]

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May 6, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

New Accountability Needed For ISPs

My weekly Law Bytes column (full hypertext version with background links or Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on a touchy subject — ISP accountability.

I argue that it is time to re-examine the self-regulatory, hands-off approach to ISPs. Content regulation is clearly unworkable and dangerous, however, I am of the view that increased accountability for ISP's carrier function may be needed.

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March 21, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

Untouchable? A Canadian Perspective on the Anti-Spam Battle

Untouchable? A Canadian Perspective on the Anti-Spam Battle, Working Paper (forthcoming 3:1 University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal (2005)).

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March 1, 2005 1 comment Scholarship

As It Happens – Successful Spam Complaint

As It Happens – Successful Spam Complaint, Professor Geist discusses his successful PIPEDA complaint against the Ottawa Renegades. The complaint was the first to address the issue of unsolicited commercial email and PIPEDA.

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December 7, 2004 Comments are Disabled Audio