Canada Dropping the Ball on Spam, Expert Says
One prominent Ottawa professor is blaming lax Canadian legislation for what he identifies as a proliferation of spammers in the country, Ars Technica points out.
The Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa's School of Law, Geist cites a report by anti-spam software provider Cloudmark in his claims that Canada has emerged as a safe haven for spammers. That report found that Canadian servers shipped out the fifth largest volume of worldwide, Web-based e-mail spam, outdone only by Iran, Nigeria, Kenya, and Israel.
Ars Technica, though, cites a study by Cloudmark-competitor Sophos that placed Canada well outside of the top ten spam-producing countries -- interestingly, the United States is ranked numero uno.
Regardless of specific data, everybody seems to agree that Canada needs anti-spam legislation. In fact, Canada is the only G-7 country not to have anti-spam legislation in place.
To our reckoning, if the Great White North isn't crawling with spammers now, by the time that news gets out, it will be. [From: MichaelGeist.ca via Ars Technica]
