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Thursday February 21, 2013 |
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The business opposition to Canada's anti-spam
legislation has added an unlikely supporter: the Canadian Recording
Industry Association, now known as Music Canada. The organization has
launched an advocacy campaign
against the law, claiming that it "will particularly hurt indie labels,
start-ups, and bands struggling to build a base and a career." Music Canada is urging people to tweet at Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore to ask him to help bands who it says will suffer from anti-spam legislation.
Yet Music Canada's specific examples mislead its
members about the impact of the legislation. The organization offers
seven examples posted below in italics (my comments immediately follow): casl, music canada, spam, spyware Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareThursday February 21, 2013 |
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Wednesday February 13, 2013 |
NDP MP Charmaine Borg, the party's digital issues critic, has written to Industry Minister Christian Paradis
to express concern over the draft anti-spam regulations, noting that
they appear to circumvent the will of Parliament. The letter cites
testimony from Industry Canada officials in 2010, who told the Industry
Committee "what the legislation is trying to do is not allow a third
party to give express or implied consent on behalf of another person."
Yet despite that position, the department has now proposed a third party
referral exception. Borg notes:
After defending their decision to exclude a third party referral
exception from the bill, Industry Canada officials, two-years later,
introduced the very same exception into the regulations. Yet it was the
text of Bill C-28 - explicitly excluding a third-party referral
exception - that received multi-partisan support in the House, Industry
Committee and the Senate. It appears that in the intervening two years
since Bill C-28 received Royal Assent, Industry Canada has decided to
regulate around the will of Parliament.
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Friday February 08, 2013 |
For the past two days I've called attention to the shocking demands
by business groups, including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the
Canadian Marketing Association, and the Entertainment Software
Association of Canada, to legalize spyware by permitting the secret
installation of computer programs to monitor activities of Canadians
suspected a potential contravention of the law (including laws such as
copyright or any foreign law) or unauthorized use of a computer system (including wireless networks).
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce added its own submission
to the government's consultation on the anti-spam regulations. The Chamber's
key concern is the very foundation of the law: opt-in consent that
requires businesses to obtain consent before sending commercial
electronic messages (subject to a wide range of exceptions). The Chamber says:
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Thursday February 07, 2013 |
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Yesterday's post
on the coalition of business lobby groups support for a spyware
provision in the Canadian anti-spam law attracted considerable
attention, with many shocked at the breadth of the proposal. While the
post focused on how the provision could be broadly interpreted to permit
spyware to track copyright infringement, block websites, or to stop
attempts to access wireless networks without authorization, it did not
discuss yet another serious concern involving the jurisdictional scope
of the provision. As noted in the post, the lobby groups, led by the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment
Software Association of Canada, have asked the government to create an exception for the express consent requirement on software installation for:
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