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If in the UK (and probably most EU countries depending on what counts as business communication locally) you can at least cause them stress for their flouting o
by Dayshine 5y ago
If in the UK (and probably most EU countries depending on what counts as business communication locally) you can at least cause them stress for their flouting of the law with minimal effort:
Make an Information Request asking how they got your personal information (email + job details) and under what legal basis they collected it.
When they inevitably reply with either LinkedIn, your work website, or some data broker make a complaint that:
1. They did not get consent from you
2. They did not inform you of the collection of your data without consent in a timely manner (through purchasing or direct collection). [Right to be informed]
3. That they are in breach of the "lawfulness" requirement of GDPR as they collected your personal information in breach of the terms/conditions of the source website (LinkedIn does not allow scraping).
When they deny all this and make some excuse about public information (which doesn't really exist), make a complaint to your local information commissioner.
If they gave a data broker, repeat the process again with them. They will remove you and pass this notification down to any other customers.
Within 6/12 months you'll be out of all the marketing lists.
- okl 5y agoI think OP wants to get rid of the spam because it annoys him, not wallow in it.
- Dayshine 5y agoGoing to the root of the problem (data brokers) could solve it more effectively than playing whack-a-mole with 2 man recruitment agencies.
- gizdan 5y agoThis is basically what I do. More often than not they'll just ignore your requests, until you threaten that you'll inform the ICO (information commission officer for the non-UK people). They usually quickly respond and take you off their lists. Either way, they usually tell you they put you on their lists because of 'legitimate interest' which is daft but there we are.
- user5994461 5y agoThat's certainly an effective way to get a bad rep and cut yourself from half the job market. In the UK, an enormous amount of jobs goes through recruiters. Even if you did not get your current job from recruiters, it's quite likely that some your coworkers did.
- Dayshine 5y agoHah, you think recruiters have some centralised database and/or are going to hold a grudge when they're looking at a £20-30k for finding you a role? The kind of recruiters who send bulk spam emails don't seem to be the kind of recruiter that have exclusive contracts anyway, so no loss.