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Industry committee Yes.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee Let's make no mistake. Legitimate companies spam, too. They do, all the time. Matt and I have been doing it for 20 years. The amount of non-compliance among legitimate companies is high. CASL has put a stop to that. On Internet of things updates, I think we could talk for hours,
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee That was one of my talking points, that we were the last country in the G8 to adopt an anti-spam law. It's embarrassing that some would like to do away with the law. It's an excellent law, and it's one that is respected as the best in the world among my colleagues. Absolutely it
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee The IoT software update issue has been misstated a little bit to this committee and perhaps misunderstood more generally. Once you install a piece of software and they throw up the terms of service to a net user, they also accept, if the terms of service are written correctly, th
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee It would not hurt us. It would benefit us and IoT is a lurking giant that should scare us all.
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee I think that's an excellent question. There's no denying that I have some open fears about people misusing the law. We didn't intend it to be a cash cow for litigious frivolities. Mr. Vernhout has stated CAUCE's opinion. Our stance is that network operators should be allowed to a
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee Yes, precisely. I think we've also heard from the Privacy Commissioner and others about some reasonable sculpting, which makes it less...in fact while I rarely find myself in agreement with Ms. Morin, I have to agree that the “false and misleading” is very vague, and there absolu
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman
Industry committee Absolutely. With apologies to the Bard of Avon, friends, parliamentarians, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to praise CASL, not to kill it. The evil that critics of CASL do lives with them; the good is oft imbued in its sections; so let it be with CASL. CASL's noble adver
October 24th, 2017Committee meeting
Neil Schwartzman