CASL's Amendments to PIPEDA: Your obligations under new address harvesting provisions

On February 4th ACTA sat down with the Privacy Commissioner's office to learn more about CASL and obligations under new address harvesting provisions. Below are key points taken from the discussion and the full presentation can be found at the link below.

• Under the Address Harvesting Act you are still accountable for lists purchased or used through third parties
• You are reponsible when using a third party to ensure that they have performed the due diligence on the list on your behalf...How is consent obtained
• A business email is considered a personal email under PIPEDA
• Email addresses listed on a website are public but can only be used for what the company listing intended by the employer

For more details the the full presentation can be downloaded here