Yesterday I was logging into my flickr account from my new Laptop and I received a Security warning pop-up asking me to validate my access from a `New Computer` by one of two methods: SMS to my phone number on account, or by triggering a non Y! email account listed in my profile. This also happened here at the office, today when logging into my Y! mail account, so it seems to be officially supported here north of the border now. I say now...

On January 26th, at the Canadian Institute’s Advertising & Marketing Law Conference, I presented the following presentation alongside Wally Hill – VP Public Affairs and Communications from the Canadian Marketing Association – where we discussed the current status of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), provided some guidance for compliance as the law and regulations as they are now drafted, comparisons to...

Yesterday I attended a meeting lead by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), that consisted of a number of the Nations largest Mobile Carriers and Aggrigators. It was exciting to finally get some real insights into the world of mobile, the types of concerns that the eco-system has and some of the issues that they are facing as a larger group… I’m happy to say true spam is not a major one (at least at...

Put this up on your list of places you don’t want to be talked about (not all press is good press). Increasing the tool set for dealing with BACN (irrelevant messaging to subscribers) and big business spam a new blog has appeared and is already attracting some attention in the email space, the Mainsleaze Blog. A place where anti-spammers will discuss spam from companies that really should know better and the networks supporting the...

This is a recent Article I published for work, and I thought it fit to share here as well. photo credit: o5com It seems like you can’t open a news feed these days without being inundated with stories about privacy. Network data breaches. Location-based tracking. Court injunctions. It’s a minefield out there. Nowhere is privacy more closely watched — or as potentially explosive — as in the field of online marketing. The integration...

Anti-phishing and domain reputation monitoring service True Domain sent this note to all subscribers on Friday stating that the service would be shutting down over the weekend. The service was used by Gmail, Yahoo, Fastmail and Operamail to Protect users from phishing and to report back to brand owners on the number of successfully authenticated emails, failed messages and source of email messages. Full message below: I regret to inform...