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Untouchable? A Plan for Battling Spam in Canada

My regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) highlights my new study on the state of anti-spam legislative measures in Canada. Despite absence of specific anti-spam legislation, the paper argues that when viewed in combination, the current Canadian legal options allow for enforcement […]

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May 3, 2004 Comments are Disabled Columns

More on Spam in Canada

Decima Publishing’s Network Letter provides great coverage of Professor Geist’s recent spam speech at the Law Society’s Communication Law conference. The two-page article highlights the key points in the speech including the need for better enforcement of existing Canadian law. see: Workplace Privacy Gets Day in Court also see: BC […]

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April 28, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

Federal Court to Examine Workplace Privacy Issue

The Globe and Mail reports on the use of surveillance technologies in the workplace and an upcoming federal court case that will examine a privacy law finding involving the use of video surveillance in a railway yard. The case comes on the heels of the release yesterday of two additional […]

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April 28, 2004 Comments are Disabled News

Untouchable? The Canadian Battle Against Spam

The Ottawa Citizen covers Professor Geist’s recent speech on anti-spam measures in Canada, delivered at the Law Society’s Bi-Annual Conference on Communications Law. The speech argued that Canada already has most of the legal tools needed to combat spam and that better enforcement is needed. see: Spam: We’ve Got the […]

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April 24, 2004 1 comment News

Is Canada’s Privacy Law A Privacy Placebo?

Professor Geist’s regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) questions the effectiveness of Canada’s privacy legislation, arguing that privacy laws without effective enforcement and genuine transparency may provide Canadians with little more than placebo privacy protection. The column suggests that responsibility for these […]

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April 19, 2004 Comments are Disabled Columns