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FWIW, in Canada, it's highly dependent on the awareness of marketing and legal folks within companies to ensure that opted-out people do not get contacted. If
by tixocloud 10y ago
FWIW, in Canada, it's highly dependent on the awareness of marketing and legal folks within companies to ensure that opted-out people do not get contacted.
If someone accidentally forgets to ensure the mailing list is cleaned out of people who've opted out, you could still be contacted.
The solution provided here is not scalable - basically every company in the world will have a list of opt outs by the time we're done. There needs to be something done at a higher level but that also comes with its own set of issues.
On my part, I have always asked people what they are going to do with an extract of customer information. Having an anti-spam law also lets me calculate what the costs will be if we get fined.
- JadeNB 10y ago> There needs to be something done at a higher level but that also comes with its own set of issues. There's an obvious 'issue'—the poor little companies that want to track to us will have a hard time, because we don't want to be tracked—an administrative issue—there has to be some easy way for just about anybody to query whatever central database—and, perhaps, a security issue—a central database with everyone's contact information could be a desireable target. That's all that I can think of, though; what else do you have in mind?
- tixocloud 10y agoYou're spot on with the issues you mentioned. The issue I thought about was who is going to be the one housing the centralized database. Would it be governments? Private corporations? Mixture of both? It's not clear what's the best option. Not everyone trusts the government to have all that information and not everyone trusts private corporations either.