Canadian Anti-Spam Law’s First Regulations Finalized
April 2, 2012 in World Data Protection Report
On March 7, 2012, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) quietly registered its Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC regulations) under legislation now widely, but still informally, known as Canada’s anti-spam law. The CRTC regulations — which were issued in final form without provision for further public consultation — are one of two sets of regulations, the other being those of Industry Canada (IC), which are preconditions to the implementation of the anti-spam law, which was originally adopted in December 2010 but is not yet in force. …
