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Fully agreed. I'm shocked she gave a random unsolicited emailer the time of day. Most problems are ones we create for ourselves. Responding to spam and then fe
by akersten 5y ago
Fully agreed. I'm shocked she gave a random unsolicited emailer the time of day. Most problems are ones we create for ourselves.
Responding to spam and then feeling like you've been the victim of some injustice that the spam didn't say "hey, I'm not really spam, I'm grad-student flavored spam" is quite a take.
Here's a tip for anyone not running a business: If your response is legally required, it'll come in the physical mail. Don't take legal advice from spam, me, or your sysadmin.
- Aerroon 5y agoBut these privacy laws do require a response when you collect data, no?
- akersten 5y agoNot until you're collecting data at the scale where you'd have a legal@yourdomain team to forward anything that vaguely smells like a legal inquiry. Which is why my tip applied for "non-business" cases.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIs it reasonable to expect people to know that? If I'm below that level, what are the odds of me knowing the law well enough to know that it doesn't apply to me?
- Godel_unicode 5y ago> Is it reasonable to expect people to know that? Yes. It's not hard.
- seebs 5y agoDo you think this applies in general to questions of legal liability, or is this one unique? If it's unique, why should anyone think that this case is unique? If you think in general it's "not hard" to know things about legal liability, either you're Elle Woods or you're an extremely overconfident fool.
- hattmall 5y agoCertified mail or trash, there's no way to even know if an email was really delivered to a recipient anyway. I'm aware of read receipts but they aren't reliable.
- iudqnolq 5y agoThis is very poor legal advice. What do you base your certainty on? In general the law doesn't work like code.