{"id":1008,"date":"2011-02-17T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2011-02-17T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T03:00:41","slug":"canadian-anti-spam-bill-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Anti-Spam Bill Comes Into Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill C-28<\/strong> came into force yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>As a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cauce.org\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email<\/a> for over a decade and participating member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopspamhere.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Task Force On Spam<\/a>, I had waited for years for anti-spam legislation to pass in Canada. But of course the proposed bills appeared to have major issues until now.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the spammers will leave Canada in response to this legislation, like they did in Australia, the U.K and USA when those countries passed anti-spamming legislation. And yes, this legislation covers those costly text spams, unless these are non-commercial solicitations (charities\/political parties).<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on this new legislation can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/ecic-ceac.nsf\/eng\/h_gv00567.html\">Industry Canada web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-28 came into force yesterday. As a member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email for over a decade and participating member of the Task Force On Spam, I had waited for years for anti-spam legislation to pass in Canada. But of course the proposed bills appeared to have major issues until now. Hopefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[886,982,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}