Canning SPAM in Canada requires new Law

My weekly Law Bytes column takes a closer look at therelease last week of the Canadian National Task Force onSpam Report. The report calls for the creation of new lawthat features an opt-in regime by making failure to obtainappropriate consents before sending commercial email anoffence, thereby taking the pressure off the currentnational privacy statute, which is ill-equipped to deal withserious spam issues. Freely available hyperlinked version at