DC Tech Talk Bill C-28 What it means to your practice Dr. Stephane Laverdiere is a 1995 graduate of the National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illi-nois. He is president and co-founder of Atlas Chiropractic Systems, a pa-perless office solution. He is also founder of the Internet video mar-keting company, ChiroVMail. He can be contacted at 877-602-8527 or [email protected]. Please visit www.atlaschirosys.com and www.chiroVMail.com for more information on digital solutions for your practice. W e always hear about bills being passed in Parliament but only when it’s imme-diately relevant to us do we actually pay much attention to the small details of legislation. For instance, we DCs will be all ears when it comes to legisla-tion related to chiropractic, and especially funding and scope of practice. A bill has re-cently been passed that may not seem to be too directly related to the profession and its members – and that, therefore, DCs might be tempted to gloss over. But, in fact, this bill has a direct bearing on a broad scope of individuals, small single-proprietor businesses and multinational corporations, including – as it turns out – chiropractors within their practices. If you have not heard about Bill C-28, it certainly is something you need to know about, and reading this article may shed some light on its contents and why they’re important to you. SO WHAT IS BILL C-28? Bill C-28 is Canada’s attempt at fighting spam. It’s the new anti-spam legislation previ-ously known as Canada’s Online Protection Legislation and now renamed “Fighting In-ternet and Wireless Spam Act” or “FISA.” This legislation, according to Industry Canada, is intended to protect individuals from four of the most damaging and deceptive types of spam: identity theft, phishing, spyware and malware. Spam includes much more than just unsolicited e-mail messages. It now accounts for 90 per cent of e-mail traffic and is clogging up network providers’ servers, slowing them down and costing us, the consumer, money in the end. For individuals, spam can lead to the theft of personal data (identity theft) including www.canadianchiropractor.ca Stephane Laverdiere, DC 32 • Canadian ChiropraCtor | JULY/aUGUSt 2011
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