{"id":15272,"date":"2021-07-13T06:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2021-07-13T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:00:14","slug":"7-years-of-failed-anti-spam-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=15272","title":{"rendered":"7 years of failed anti-spam legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I saw the CRTC mark the 7th anniversary of Canada&#8217;s anti-spam legislation (CASL) coming into force with a tweet:<\/p>\n<div align=center>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seven years ago, Canada&#39;s anti-spam legislation came into force to protect the population from spam and other online threats. &#x1f6e1;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKjOOD8gOy\">https:\/\/t.co\/fKjOOD8gOy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CASL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CASL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Email?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Email<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SME?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SME<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marketing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Marketing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CRTC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CRTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CRTCeng (@CRTCeng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CRTCeng\/status\/1413139573803081730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/j.mp\/2UzxCuJ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replied, noting<\/a> that 7 years ago, I wrote: <a href=\"https:\/\/j.mp\/3hMRO4a\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;CASL is indefensible&#8221;<\/a>, in which I observed that the root of CASL&#8217;s problems were that &#8220;we strayed too far from trying to target fraud. In doing so, Canada is going to cause harm to the adoption of digital technologies and electronic commerce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main problem with unwanted electronic messages (emails and texts) and calls is fraud: calls and messages that purport to be from someone or some company other than the real caller; or, misrepresenting the goods or services or purpose of the call; or, those continuing to call after being asked to stop. <\/p>\n<p>Those are the communications that we should have been focusing on trying to stop. But those seem to be precisely the ones that are still getting through.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, as predicted, we made life more difficult for legitimate businesses, and that translates into higher costs for Canadians. In December 2017, a Parliamentary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/j.mp\/3hIj6Zq\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> repeatedly recognized the &#8220;unintended cost of compliance&#8221; in making recommendations for changes to the legislation. Those are unintended costs for Canadian businesses, which ultimately are borne by consumers.<\/p>\n<p>For seven years, the legislative over-reach of CASL has impaired the efficient use of electronic commerce by Canadian businesses and failed to protect Canadians from malicious online threats. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an anniversary that I&#8217;m not celebrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, I saw the CRTC mark the 7th anniversary of Canada&#8217;s anti-spam legislation (CASL) coming into force with a tweet: Seven years ago, Canada&#39;s anti-spam legislation came into force to protect the population from spam and other online threats. &#x1f6e1;&#xfe0f; https:\/\/t.co\/fKjOOD8gOy#CASL #Email #SME #Marketing #Spam #CRTC &mdash; CRTCeng (@CRTCeng) July 8, 2021 I replied, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=15272\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 years of failed anti-spam legislation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>7 years of failed anti-spam legislation &#8226; 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