More than 1,000 complaints have been filed since the new anti-spam law took effect on Tuesday, says Manon Bombardier, the CRTC’s chief compliance and enforcement officer.
Hundreds of reports have been submitted daily at http://fightspam.gc.ca and investigators are already at work looking into whether companies have violated the new law, says Bombardier.
“We have received a number of complaints, and the numbers will keep going up for sure, but really for us the positive message is Canadians are seeing the importance of the legislation and they are reporting (spam) to the CRTC as the mechanism allows them to do,” she says.
“From what we’ve observed in social media the reaction seems to be quite positive.”
Michael Oliveira – Canadian Press – July 4, 2014.
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