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CRTC Issues Stay on Telemarketing Rules

Professor Geist comments on the recent decision by the CRTC to stay its new telemarketing rules as requested by the Canadian Marketing Association. Professor Geist argues that the government needs to act or risk leaving critical protections in limbo.  

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September 30, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

Privacy Commissioner Releases Decision on Inadvertent Email Disclosure

The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has issued several new findings including one involving a complaint against a loyalty program that inadvertently disclosed the email addresses of 618 program participants. The commissioner ruled that error was a violation of PIPEDA, though unlike a similar case in the United States involving Eli Lilly, […]

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September 29, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

CRTC Issues Stay on Telemarketing Rules

The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission has approved, with one exception, an application by the Canadian Marketing Association to issue a stay on its telemarketing rules. The rules deal with the prospect for a do-not-call list and impose a series of obligations on Canadian businesses that raised privacy and cost […]

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September 29, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

CRTC Issues Stay on Telemarketing Rules

The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission has approved, with one exception, an application by the Canadian Marketing Association to issue a stay on its telemarketing rules. The rules deal with the prospect for a do-not-call list and impose a series of obligations on Canadian businesses that raised privacy and cost […]

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September 29, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

UN ICT Task Force Publishes Internet Governance Text

The UN ICT Task Force has published Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration, a collection of works from a March 2004 meeting. Professor Geist contributes National Governments and Country Code Top Level Domains: A Global Survey.

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September 28, 2004 Comments are Disabled Chapters, News