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In 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued important
decisions and guidance regarding the validity and interpretation of
CASL
CASL creates a comprehensive regime of offences, enforcement
mechanisms and potentially severe penalties designed to prohibit
the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages (CEMs),
the unauthorized commercial installation and use of computer
programs on another person s computer system, and other forms
of online fraud. Following are some key aspects of CASL:
CASL creates an opt-in regime that
prohibits, subject to limited exceptions, the sending of a CEM
CONSIDERING THE LEGAL TENABILITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW
SIM REGISTRATION RULES
On November 7, 2011, the Federal Government of Nigeria passed
the Communications Commission ( Registration of Telephone
Subscribers ) Regulations
2 which required mobile phone
subscribers to allow their finger prints and a biometric map of
their faces to be collected and registered to their SIM cards,
which are then stored in a central government database.
Subsequently, on December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications
Commission ( NCC ) issued a directive for the suspension
of new SIM registration by network operators.
3 The dust had barely
settled when on the 15
th of December 2020, the NCC
issued a fresh directive titled Implementation of New SIM