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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Ottawa finally announces anti-malware legislation Canadian-based offenders could face fines of up to $10 million. However, an industry analyst doubts the law on its own will have much effect on most people's inboxes
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Spam watch - U.S. heads the dirty dozen A recent report by a British computer security firm has placed the United States at the top of its list of 12 spam-relaying countries. While Canada didn't make it on Sophos Plc.'s Dirty Dozen catalogue, one e-commerce expert says the country is far from being squeaky clean.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
CAN-SPAM law goes under the microscope For A.J. Byers, CEO at Magma Communications, an Internet service provider based in Ottawa, anti-spam legislation, either in Canada or the United States, will do little to curb the 24 million unsolicited e-mail messages that arrive at his business each month.
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Spam may cost Hong Kong $1.3 billion a year About 50 per cent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) a year, according to survey findings released today by the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA).
Friday, November 07, 2003
Ninety-seven senators can be wrong The vote in your United States Senate was 97 to 0 - generally the kind of bipartisan unanimity reserved for proclamations supporting National Bran Muffin Month and the like.
Monday, October 20, 2003
U.K. lawmakers call on US to pass spam legislation The U.S. Congress needs to move forward with anti-spam legislation, even though the U.S. and the European Union have different ideas on how to classify spam, two members of the U.K. House of Commons said Wednesday.
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