Government, industry, to attack spam

OTTAWA – New legislation and more rigorous enforcement are a couple of the new tools recommended to fight e-mail spam says a new report entitled, Stopping Spam: Creating a Stronger, Safer Internet. The report is from the federal government’s Task Force on Spam, which presented its final report David Emerson, Minister of Industry, today. The task force members included Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada (Chair); Lori Assheton-Smith, Senior Vice-President and General Counsel, Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association; Tom Copeland, President, Canadian Association of Internet Providers; Bernard Courtois, President, Information Technology Association of Canada; Michael...