Ottawa finally announces anti-malware legislation, By: Howard Solomon, itWorldCanada (Apr 24)
"The Electronic Commerce Protection Act, tabled in Parliament on Friday morning, would give the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which regulates Internet and wireless providers, and the federal Competition Bureau the right to charge Canadian-based senders of malware with breaking the law and face up to $10 million in fines for an organziation or $1 million for an individual. The wording, which would cover system builders, forbids anyone from installing a comptuer program on a computer for sale that would send an electronic message without the consent of the owner or user."
Posted by Gwen at April 27, 2009 02:17 PM