Rogers Media pays $200K for spamming violations

OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Rogers Media shelled out $200,000 as part of a settlement over alleged violations to Canada's anti-spam legislation, plus agreed to improve its internal spam compliance program, the CRTC said Friday.The Commission investigated Rogers Media for allegedly sending commercial emails containing an unsubscribe mechanism that did not function properly or which could not be readily performed by the recipient between July 2014 and July 2015. In addition, the electronic address used to unsubscribe was not valid for the required minimum of 60 days following the sent message, and the company failed to honour some requests to unsubscribe from receiving future...