Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
CASL: Address Harvesting and Misleading Representations

Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) CASL-17: Address Harvesting Prohibition

CASL (s.82) amended PIPEDA (s.7.1) to prohibit collecting electronic addresses through address-harvesting software or dictionary attacks, and using addresses so collected, without consent.

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Australia Spam Act 2003 · 3 controls

  • s16-6 s 16(6) Do not send commercial messages to addresses not believed to exist
  • s20 s 20 Do not supply address-harvesting software or harvested-address lists
  • s22 s 22 Do not use address-harvesting software or harvested-address lists for unsolicited sends

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