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CASL - Canada Anti-Spam Legislation

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Just so everyone knows:

As of July 1st - if a business collects your email, they must acquire and keep your hard copy or electronic consent signature on file.

If you don't provide consent and they send you an Electronic Message (email, text, website link, etc) , there is a 1Million Dollar individual and 10Million dollar corporation penalty

If you are wondering why you keep getting emails from companies asking you if they can continue spamming you, well that is the reason.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/casl-lcap.htm
 
This is fine in theory. Seems to put a lot of stress/strain on the small/smaller companies who cannot dedicate resources to sending opt in emails to their client list.

I suspect I will continue to get offers for cheap Viagra, Nigerian Princes with fortunes to bestow on me etc....
 
I love how all these companies are spamming collectively one last time before the new law is in order lol
 
Zoodles95 said:
This is fine in theory. Seems to put a lot of stress/strain on the small/smaller companies who cannot dedicate resources to sending opt in emails to their client list.

I suspect I will continue to get offers for cheap Viagra, Nigerian Princes with fortunes to bestow on me etc....
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Legally, they don't have to send an "opt in" email. Anyone that was already getting emails before July 1st there is a consent implied, it is only people that give their emails starting July 1st and beyond.

Many companies to cover their own butts are being proactive and sending an "opt in" email so they can keep your electronic consent and not be at risk but legally is not required. All these small companies have to do is have a process and train their employees to the process of collecting an initial or consent on paper when they enter someones email into any kind of electronic mailing system.
 
WOW THE END OF SPAM! THANKS LEGISLATION!!!


Oh wait, these morons obviously have no idea how spam works and why there's so much of it, and why legislation won't do a damn thing.
 
mmmnaked said:
WOW THE END OF SPAM! THANKS LEGISLATION!!!


Oh wait, these morons obviously have no idea how spam works and why there's so much of it, and why legislation won't do a damn thing.
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Exactly! This legislation will never stop true spammers (the majority of which do not originate in Canada) but puts a huge burden on small businesses.
 
CrazyKell said:
Exactly! This legislation will never stop true spammers (the majority of which do not originate in Canada) but puts a huge burden on small businesses.
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Typical of our government.

Maybe they can just make a email registry?
 
Actually a huge amount of world wide spam originates in Canada.

I know of more than one comapny that is using this as a chance to purge their mailing lists with an opt-in email.
 
mmmnaked said:
WOW THE END OF SPAM! THANKS LEGISLATION!!!


Oh wait, these morons obviously have no idea how spam works and why there's so much of it, and why legislation won't do a damn thing.
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CrazyKell said:
Exactly! This legislation will never stop true spammers (the majority of which do not originate in Canada) but puts a huge burden on small businesses.
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True that the true spammers are out of the country, but it will reduce the amount of emails we get from business in Canada, by how much I don't know. Not only small business, but big business are also using a lot of resources to deal with this.

Something had to be done, as this is getting ridiculous, is this the right thing? I don't know but at least is something
 
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My spam box isn't full of business emails its full of Viagra and porn stuff sprinkled with Nigerian prince scams. I predict nothing changes.
 
If it puts a stop once and for all to The Weedman contacting me I'll be happy...
 
ZX600 said:
Legally, they don't have to send an "opt in" email. Anyone that was already getting emails before July 1st there is a consent implied, it is only people that give their emails starting July 1st and beyond.

Many companies to cover their own butts are being proactive and sending an "opt in" email so they can keep your electronic consent and not be at risk but legally is not required. All these small companies have to do is have a process and train their employees to the process of collecting an initial or consent on paper when they enter someones email into any kind of electronic mailing system.
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We just went through this with our legal department and they said there is no implied consent, if they want to keep emailing you then they have to send an email asking for a one time consent. One of the emails I got from Sony started just that. If I want to continue to receive emails from them I have to click yes, and if I don't click yes I'm automatically removed from their list. By reading the faq's there still some form of complied consent, maybe our company is just over cautious.

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oilycreek said:
We just went through this with our legal department and they said there is no implied consent, if they want to keep emailing you then they have to send an email asking for a one time consent. One of the emails I got from Sony started just that. If I want to continue to receive emails from them I have to click yes, and if I don't click yes I'm automatically removed from their list. By reading the faq's there still some form of complied consent, maybe our company is just over cautious.

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I think many Major companies like ours are over cautious and I also think neither your legal department or mine seem to know what the hell is going on

[h=2]Implied Permission[/h]Implied permission takes place in a situation where the conditions of express permission have not been met but some previous relationship exists. Some examples of implied permission include:

  • Existing business relationships where the recipient has:
    • Bought or leased a product, good, or service from the business owner in the past two years
    • Been involved in an investment or gaming opportunity with the customer in the past two years
    • Entered into a written or electronic contract with the customer in the last two years
  • Existing non-business relationships where the recipient has:
    • Made a donation or gift to a registered charity or political organization in the past two years
    • Volunteered with the charity or political organization in the past two years
    • Been a member of an organization’s club, association or not-for-profit volunteer association in the last two years
You cannot keep contacts who have only given you Implied consent on your list forever. Implied consent does expire after a period of time and needs to be converted into Express content. Your Implied permission will expire:
  • For contacts captured BEFORE July 1, 2014: On July 1, 2017 (three years after law goes into effect)
  • For contacts captured AFTER July 1, 2014: Two years after they were initially collected. This applies only if the contact doesn't buy something new or doesn't renew their subscription, loan, account, or contract.
 
That was one of the big problems at the meeting, the lawyer kept answering questions with, is still very new and there's lots to digest, we hope to have all the answers asap. There's so many different variables with it and that's why there's a one year adoption to it

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Getting a stupid amount of emails from companies talking about this legislation and encouraging me to subscribe to their spam before the legislation kicks in.
 
best one I got so far was from a Jeep forum, telling me they will cancel my membership if i don't subscribe, I am tempted to send it out to the government and get them in some serious legal hurt but I won't. Probably some idiot running it that has no legal concept.
 
I probably get 50 or 60 spams per day. Most go directly to the junk file via anti spam. A half a dozen new ones go to my inbox to be labelled junk in the future. I have to check the junk before deleting because every once in a while it's over zealous and zaps a legit message. Waste of 5 minutes a day.

Nothing will change.
 
The bigger companies will now just use out of country third parties to spam you now instead as it doesn't effect out of Canada originating emails. Just like the do not call list came out and then you started getting all the phone calls from overseas trying to sell you stuff.

Regarding the opt in, you have to receive an opt in email where you have to decide to stay and not just get an email that already has a box checked off for you stating you want to receive the emails. I also got a few emails that stated if you do not respond to this email we will keep contacting you which is also illegal now.

For the signatures they don't need your actual signature, just your consent and there are a variety of options for the "consent".
 
ATTS said:
The bigger companies will now just use out of country third parties to spam you now instead as it doesn't effect out of Canada originating emails. Just like the do not call list came out and then you started getting all the phone calls from overseas trying to sell you stuff.

Regarding the opt in, you have to receive an opt in email where you have to decide to stay and not just get an email that already has a box checked off for you stating you want to receive the emails. I also got a few emails that stated if you do not respond to this email we will keep contacting you which is also illegal now.

For the signatures they don't need your actual signature, just your consent and there are a variety of options for the "consent".
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It is not illegal yet. They have 3 years to gather express consent (if they already have implied consent).
 
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