Canadian Privacy Law v. E-Mail Harvesting

Posted by timothy on Monday February 21, 2005 @05:21AM from the sticky-wicket dept.

sbowles writes "Canada's Privacy Commisioner has ruled that a business e-mail address is personal information protected under the federal privacy legislation (PIPEDA). Law professor Michael Geist (a leading e-commerce and privacy law expert) received an unsolicited request to buy seasons tickets from the local football team. His e-mail address had been harvested from a University website. The ruling indicated that 'You are allowed to collect and use publicly available information, but the use has to be directly related to the purpose for which the information appears in a directory or notice.'"

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Re:Well... by mmkkbb · 2005-02-21 06:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

The nasty bots are still quite capable of understanding NO and SPAM, so it's more effective to have some other armoring, like my old favorite: "blahdeblah@dirty.balls.org, castrate to email (remove the .balls)"

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-mkb