Canada:
Anti-Spam Law Finally Coming!
05 December 2013
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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The Government announced today that Canada's Anti-Spam law (CASL) will come
into effect on July 1, 2014. The announcement can be found here and a backgrounder regarding the
legislation can be found here. The sections of the legislation that deal
with the unsolicited installation of computer programs or software
will come into force on January 15, 2015. Final regulations issued
by Industry Canada can be found here. The CRTC Regulations can be found here. More to follow.
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