Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations

Here is a 150-200 word brief summary of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations:

The Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations, made under An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act, aims to regulate commercial electronic messages in Canada. The regulations exclude certain types of messages from section 6 of the Act, including messages sent by employees or representatives of organizations to fellow employees or representatives within their organization, messages sent in response to a request or inquiry, messages sent to satisfy legal obligations, and messages sent to enforce rights under Canadian law.

The regulations also outline conditions for use of consent, specifying that a person who obtained express consent on behalf of a person whose identity was unknown must ensure that the authorized person provides an unsubscribe mechanism. Additionally, the regulations specify certain computer programs as excluded from section 6, including security programs and programs necessary to correct failures in network operation. The regulations also define membership, club, association, and voluntary organization for the purposes of paragraph 10(13)(c) of the Act.