“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
Many folks have been talking recently about a September BGH decision holding that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function are considered spam unless the recipient had given prior express consent. Federal Court of Justice, Empfehlungs-E-Mail (I-ZR-208/12) (2013). (A very unofficial Google Translate version of the decision is available here.) This is a
Don’t opt-out of spam?
Yesterday, Laura Atkins wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam (Atkins 2013). I know that this is a project that she’s been working on for at least a month, and I don’t have any reason to doubt her results. Additionally, she links to (Magill 2013), (Pogue 2013),
Looking at a spam stream: The story of Jimmy Walker
I was recently asked about how to go about proving that someone was not obtaining email addresses in a direct, opt-in manner. The methodology won’t surprise you, and if you have been involved in helping problematic clients for a while, the results might not even surprise you. The “someone” at issue was a payday loaner.