Industry committee  I'm seeing it. There's a lot more going on than we used to see.

Industry committee  The law already has provisions for a lot of that material, for a lot of that sort of thing: if there's an innocent mistake, you write a letter and tell us you're not going to do that again. That's actually in the law. It strikes me that it's fairly gentle in that sense, in that

Industry committee  We do. I'm specifically looking at botnets, but I do see what's going on elsewhere. There is considerably less of what you would call “white spam”, which is somebody making a mistake and sending out stuff they shouldn't have. We're seeing the criminal side. There is more grey. Mo

Industry committee  I was part of the FASTF deliberations back in 2005-2006. I consulted when they brought it in, and I have watched industry follow it. It has surprised me that some of the companies seem to be going a little overboard with compliance. I have to think that various people are making

Industry committee  Informally, there have been some discussions. Naturally, for example, since I have been consulting directly with CRTC, they are evolving. What they are dealing with is evolving. They themselves are learning. There's a very steep learning curve in trying to deal with this, so they

Industry committee  I believe protection is built into the law about the private right of action. For example, there's the CRTC, the Privacy Commissioner, and the competition branch's ability to override an individual lawsuit. The laws in Canada are fundamentally different in this regard from the Un

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Bonjour and good morning. My name is Chris Lewis. I'm the chief scientist at Spamhaus Technology, which is part of Spamhaus, one of the largest and most well-respected sources of Internet threat intelligence in the world. While most of you may not have