Dnia 5.05.2025 o godz. 13:32:01 John A via mailop pisze: > Not reading thru account configuration and employing the tools provided, > imo, does not make their mail spam. Is it annoying that they opt you in > automatically vs letting you choose up front? Sure. Blame the slowest > kid in the class for that as people would do exactly as you're doing and > not configure the account the way they want it and end up not receiving > the alerts and then complain. This forces these vendors to default > opt-in, sadly.
Default opt-in is a violation of the GDPR, period. Even pre-checking the opt-in box is. (Yet I still see many companies do this anyway). The GDPR website says (https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ ): "Consent must be unambiguous. That is, there should be no question about whether the data subject has consented. “Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent,” according to GDPR Recital 32." So I think it's totally OK to consider the mail sent because of default opt-in as spam. (Even non-European companies, if they provide services that are available to European customers, are subject to GDPR). -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [email protected] -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
