Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

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> “CASL defines spam as commercial electronic messages without consent or the installation of software without consent or the intercepting of electronic messages,”

I.e. not strictly an anti-spam law. Misleading headline.

Canada is using civil law against unauthorized software installation to, unsurprisingly, go after malware.

It is literally called Civil Anti-Spam Law, so it's an accurate title.

Just to be the king of this pedantic hill it's actually Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation.

I'm not above being corrected on acronyms, I bow to you being the king of the hill.

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