CASL Update.

#CASL #spam #phishing #scam

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/pub/20230331.htm

Since reviving my LinkedIn account/profile last year, I regularly get cold-call sales emails (via regular email, outside of LinkedIn, but it’s obvious where they come from). This is #spam.

It’s also an illegal tactic, since I’m in #Canada, and #CASL (Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation) prohibits companies from sending me electronic messages without my consent.

Mark these messages as spam and never EVER do business with spammers.

https://fightspam-combattrelepourriel.ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canada-anti-spam-legislation/en/understand-canadas-anti-spam-legislation/understand-canadas-anti-spam-legislation-sub/understanding-canadas-anti-spam-legislation

Super proud of our 2nd Years who this week presented posters on the research projects they had worked on all semester! There was a project on accent adaptation after mood induction, on people's ability to read emotions from masked faces, on the framing of questions and its impact on decision-making as well as this beauty:

https://twitter.com/jscobbie/status/1641764258462461955?s=20

#CASL #SHS #QMU #StudentsAsResearchers

In Canada, you cannot simply add somebody to your mailing list without explicit consent or a pre-existing business relationship, so you're violating #CASL here, and probably #CANSPAM there, and definitely #GDPR everywhere 2/3 @RyanHoliday@twitter.com @askryanlevesque@twitter.com