Are You Ready For Canada’s Anti-Spam Act Which Comes In Effect On July 1, 2014

Do You Conduct Business Online?

If you conduct business online, you should review your terms of use, privacy policies and other legal agreements and marketing processes to ensure compliance with Canada’s new Anti-Spam law which is expected to come into force next year. The penalties are high ($1m for individuals and $10M for business) and the Act is very complex and the definitions are not as precise as they should be.

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Is your Smart TV spying on you? Is your cable company spying on you?

A UK blogger discovered that his new LG Smart TV was sending back unencrypted information about what TV shows he was watching and the names of files in his USB card attached to his TV to LG. “In fact, there is an option in the system settings called "Collection of watching info:" which is set ON by default. This setting requires the user to scroll down to see it and, unlike most other settings, contains no "balloon help" to describe what it does.” He turned this switch off; however, it had no effect! The LG Smart TV was still spying on him.

Do you have a smart TV or are you thinking of buying? Is it spying on you? Also, is you cable company spying on you? More to come. at www.law4it.com