The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has ruled that business e-mail addresses are personal information. The ruling is intended to protect people from spam at work that is not work-related. The case itself involved a local football team sending an unsolicited email to a University of Ottawa law professor. The professor asked them to remove him from their list, and the same message appeared a few days later.

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