Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
Statute
Canada
· 2010
CASL is the strictest commercial-messaging law in the world — express opt-in consent, prescribed sender identification, a working unsubscribe honoured within ten business days, and penalties to CAD 10 million. It also does something no other spam law does: it separately regulates the INSTALLATION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS on another person's device, which makes it the only statute in this catalog that reaches a software updater.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.