E-learning company faces $50K fine for spamming violations

OTTAWA - Blackstone Learning Corp. is on the hook for $50,000 after the CRTC found that it committed nine violations of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL).The Commission conducted an investigation after the Spam Reporting Centre received numerous complaints about emails advertising educational and training services offered by the company, primarily targeting government employees. The initial notice of violation identified nine messaging campaigns totalling 385,668 commercial electronic messages sent by Blackstone between July 9 and September 18, 2014, without the consent of the recipients. It also set out an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $640,000.Blackstone appealed, and the CRTC said Wednesday that it...