The Cassels Brock Report has reported that Canada's new anti-spam law isn't
expected to come into effect until 2013.
They quote the Canadian Minister of Industry as saying in a
speech given on April 24, 2012, that they expect the law “to take
effect next year”. Part of the hold up, of course is that we still
don’t have the final regulations from Industry Canada. They could
come out any time now, but given this development, I think that
Industry Canada is taking its time about things so we might be in
for a longer wait.
Keep checking back as our email
deliverability team continues to monitor this...
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) released the final form of its regulations on March 5, 2012.
You can see them for yourself in the
Canada Gazette (Canada’s version of the United States’
Federal Register). They are printed in the March 28, 2012
edition. This version is not a call for comments, but rather the
release of the actual rules after considering the comments made in
response to their prior “Call for comments on draft Electronic
Commerce Protection Regulations” which was
released last July.
These regulations are not much different than the...
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Policy decisions by administrators at domains
that receive mail can often have an adverse impact on your ability
to send mail. These policies may result in changes to the message
being sent that can cause things to work in a manner in which they
are not intended.
One example of this phenomenon is seen in mail
sent to United States Army domains. We have recently been made
aware that links in mail sent to addresses which end in us.army.mil
have been broken. One of our deliverability consultants reached out
to the postmaster there and received the following reply:
Links within the
us.army.mil...
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The Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released its “Call for comments
on draft Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations” on June
30, 2011. The Call for Comments stands
in roughly the same place as a United States government agency’s
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. They are
the CRTC’s notice that they have figured out what rules they want
people to follow under a specific statute. In this instance, we’re talking about Canada’s
Anti-Spam Law (CASL), which was given royal assent on December 15,
2010.
The Call for Comments does not give any
explanations for the...
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One of the hottest topics in the
areas of privacy and policy lately has been the "Do Not Track"
proposal found in the FTC's latest privacy report: "
Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid
Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and
Policymakers". In fact, this one topic has completely
overshadowed all of the other things mentioned within the
report.
Last week, AdWeek published an
op-ed by FTC Commissioner J. Thomas
Rosch. Commissioner Rosch pointed out that the FTC has
not actually endorsed any particular Do Not Track mechanism:
The media loves "do not track." In
recent days, there...
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