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As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
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The GDPR won't be implemented for another month and a half.
GDPR is active now. It has been for almost two years. It is just now becoming enforced (with all its sanctions), after the two-year transition period.
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
I happily reference the FTC documentation of this act whenever I see spam coming in after having unsubscribed. Funny, I can’t seem to recall any instance where the spam then continued...
I'm really curious whether or not this will have an effect and to what extent. I have been using the last 6 months documenting all of our company's processes that handle customer interaction and data (which is basically all our processes), created flowcharts of how data moves between us, third part providers and customers as well as creating a document for each of these flowcharts that pinpoint exactly how we are com…
There were still a few processes that I could simplify and automate.
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 is a fine stick, easy to handle, and packs an up to ~$40,000 punch for EACH violation. I happily reference the FTC documentation of this act whenever I see spam coming in after having unsubscribed. Funny, I can’t seem to recall any instance where the spam then continued...
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I'm really curious whether or not this will have an effect and to what extent. I have been using the last 6 months documenting all of our company's processes that handle customer interaction and data (which is basically all our processes), created flowcharts of how data moves between us, third part providers and customers as well as creating a document for each of these flowcharts that pinpoint exactly how we are com…
Same here. My company is a lot smaller (at least from the sound of it) but GDPR made me review my processes as well. There were still a few processes that I could simplify and automate.
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
Spammers don’t tend to operate from first-world jurisdictions. (When they do, CAN-SPAM is decent about requiring working unsubscribe buttons). Spam is not a problem you can solve with regulation.
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU. There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
Sorry to break it to you, but having live both in EU, and now in the US, I still got more email spam from France. Laws like this are broad and overreaching, but they are rarely enforced.
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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 is a fine stick, easy to handle, and packs an up to ~$40,000 punch for EACH violation. I happily reference the FTC documentation of this act whenever I see spam coming in after having unsubscribed. Funny, I can’t seem to recall any instance where the spam then continued...
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