credit card numbers and banking information. It can lead you to fraudulent websites (phishing) luring you to answer questions and divulge personnel information voluntarily. As well, spam can access your computer’s sensitive information, unbeknownst to you, and extract your personnel informa-tion with spyware. Malware is a general term for all forms of harmful and malicious content, especially hostile software COuNTRIES RANKED BY SPAM VOLuME RANK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Table 1 such as viruses, worms and Trojan horses being installed on your computer. “BotLab – A Study in Spam” (www.botlab.org) is a web-based initiative that analyzes spam weekly. Table one shows the results of the top 12 countries producing spam. (Note: these results are taken at the time this article is being written – if you check the website while reading the article, the results may look different.) Canada is said to rank 15, at this time, but that doesn’t say much for a country with such a small population. COuNTRY India United States Vietnam Brazil Russia Germany Italy France United Kingdom Ukraine Romania Spain WHO WILL ENFORCE THIS LEGISLATION AND WHO NEEDS TO COMPLY? Anyone sending e-mails to Canadians will have to comply with the regulations. Any e-mails originating from another country to Canada will have to comply with our regulations also. Our tax dollars will pay for a new spam reporting centre that will collect evidence and gather intelligence to assist three distinct enforcement agencies: • The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission • Competition Bureau Canada • The Office of the Privacy Commissioner You need to find out how to be compliant because stiff pen -alties are on their way! Someone has to pay for this infrastruc-ture and, so, individuals can face fines of up to $1 million per violation per day. Businesses can face fines of up to $10 million per violation and per day. That’s a lot of cash, folks, just for sending an e-mail! www.canadianchiropractor.ca Canadian ChiropraCtor | JULY/AUGUST 2011 • 33
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