In a report for the Toronto Sun, David Canton explores the implications of the recently passed Bill C-28 anti-spam legislation, which is expected to go into force later this year. "If you think it won't affect you because you don't send mass e-mails trying to sell random products and don't infest other people's computers with spyware, you would be wrong," he writes. Canton explores the implications of Bill C-28 on commercial electronic messages such as instant messages, social media and even software updates. Potentially, he writes, "while the intention is to control what we all understand as spam and spyware, it has the potential to affect many things that we may not intuitively" consider as such.
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