More Opportunities to Comment

The CRTC is calling for comments on the Telecommunications Act customer privacy regulations by March 16, 2009. Michael Geist states that the CRTC is essentially asking if the market will provide privacy protections equivalent to the provisions Telecommunications Act.

In the Notice of Consultation they do, however, state that previously, "the Commission considered that market forces were unlikely to sufficiently protect the privacy interests of customers in a forborne environment".