BACKGROUND TO CASL Sample Clauses

BACKGROUND TO CASL. Among other things, CASL covers a broad range of activities, including prohibiting: 1) sending a “commercial electronic message” or “CEM” via any electronic medium (email, social media, instant messenger, etc.) without the recipient’s prior express or implied consent, unless a statutory implied consent or an exclusion applies (as explained in this Addendum); 2) hacking, malware and spyware; 3) phishing, fraudulent or misleading practices. Note this includes making misleading statements in the subject line of any electronic message;

BACKGROUND TO CASL. Among other things, CASL covers a broad range of activities, including prohibiting: ● Sending a “commercial electronic message” (CEM) via any electronic medium (email, social media, instant messenger, etc.) without the recipient’s prior express or implied consent, unless a statutory implied consent or an exclusion applies (as explained in this Addendum). ● Hacking, malware and spyware. ● Phishing, fraudulent or misleading practices. Note this includes making misleading statements in the subject line of any electronic message. ● Altering someone else’s data transmission. ● Data mining for personal information or using personal information collected from data mining. ● Certain forms of privacy invasion, including using a computer program to harvest electronic addresses, or surreptitiously installing a computer program that may collect personal information stored on someone’s device. ● Installing a computer program on someone else’s computer system, or altering someone else’s computer device unless you have their prior consent (such as downloading a conference app to your smart device), excepting only certain programs listed in CASL, such as cookies, HTML and Java.