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by hanbura
2960 days ago
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Sure, sending spam that I can opt out of isn't the worst thing they can do. But if you are selling security products I expect better morals than that. This is yubico squandering trust in exchange for sending a few more marketing emails. Considering legislation: I live in Germany. Over here unsolicited marketing mail (snail mail) addressed to me is illegal. I fully support legislation that extends the same standard to email (and I'm pretty sure yubico's behaviour is illegal here). It's waisting my time and computing resources for somebody else's gain (and that on a massive scale: if you waste just one minute each from a million people, that's two full years wasted) |
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Has already happened. Sending unsolicited marketing via email is illegal in Germany. For some light reading I can recommend this lawyers blog who blogs about his lawsuits against spammers https://www.kanzlei-hoenig.de/search/Spam/
A recent high profile case deciding that even marketing in auto replies constitutes spam was this https://www.dr-bahr.com/news/werbung-in-autoreply-e-mails-is... (with links to high court decisions)
An overview about under which conditions Marketing Mails are legal is here https://www.datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de/fachbeitraege/ne...
You can request that the sender produces a protocol of your opt-in. That’s usually the best route as a layperson since it demonstrates that you know your rights, carries no risk since no accusations are leveled and is a red flag for any lawyers on the other end. I have a link to a good sample text somewhere but can’t find it right now.