Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect three years ago to restrict commercial electronic messages (CEMs). It started with a probationary period of sorts to help organizations ease into compliance. On July 1, 2017 that phase-in period ends. The deadline is specifically related to the CASL requirements for obtaining “consent” from recipients of CEMs. Starting […]
CASL is a spam-fighting Act that, among other things, regulates what kind of electronic messages people and organizations can send and under what circumstances. It applies to sending e-mails, text messages, social media, and other forms of electronic message, but not to faxes or phone calls. Ever since it came into effect in 2014, we […]