The transcripts from my visit to Parliament Hill concerning Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce protection act, is now available. 40th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSIONStanding Committee on Industry, Science and TechnologyThursday, June 11, 2009Full transcripts here Witnesses include:Professor Michael Geist (Canada Research Chair, Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual)Mr. Dennis Dayman (Secretary Treasurer, CAUCE North...

Via a number of discussion groups and email lists, I received the following bulletin from Michelle Sullivan, founder of the Blacklist SORBS, regarding the upcoming closure of this service. SORBS is currently looking at a sale of the services, hardware and code base – and according to their website “A number of offers have already been made, we are evaluating each on their own merits“. Posted in full blow with...

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (Radio Netherlands World) is reporting that the Current Dutch Anti-spam legislation, focusing on Unsolicited Emails to individuals is being updated to also include emails sent to corporations. Full report:The economic affairs ministry says all spam e-mails will be against the law in the Netherlands from October. It was already illegal to send spam e-mails to private individuals but the ban will be extended to...

Originally published on CAUCE.org. On June 11, 2009 Dennis Dayman and I set an afternoon with the Canadian Government’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science & Technology to stand witness for the Electronic Commerce Protect Act in two capacities. First we acted as representives for CAUCE NA – an all volunteer organization representing the consumer and end user – and secondly as representatives of the legitimate...

As a Director with CAUCE I’m happy to share this news – Original source CAUCE NA Cauce North America Inc. — The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (http://www.CAUCE.org) — Today announced at The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting (MAAWG) that it has received additional financial support from Return Path Inc. The viewpoint of computer end-users is often one missing from the anti-abuse discussions,...