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For Germany, making the registers private will change little with regards to spam. Because EU and German law still requires that every website, every email and
by leobg 4y ago
For Germany, making the registers private will change little with regards to spam. Because EU and German law still requires that every website, every email and every job posting for any commercial enterprise contains an imprint (including the name of the person responsible and an email address).
- iggldiggl 4y agoUnfortunately, due to the ways the laws are worded, even a lot of seemingly private pages fall under the imprint requirements, or at least inside of a big legal grey area. Of course the absurdity is that not that long ago there was much handwringing about the privacy implications of publishing the contact details of the domain owner for .de-domains (now it's no longer publicly accessible), there was the whole infamous brouhaha about Google Streetview, but requiring every private Tom, Dick or Harry to put up a full imprint is apparently perfectly normal and just the way it is done.
- leobg 4y agoYup. It’s a joke. Also: How does anyone ever sue you if you don’t have one? After all, they don’t know who to sue then. :-)
- nicbou 4y agoYes but you have to scrape lots of websites instead of a single one. You can also control which information you list, so long as it allows customers to reach you quickly. As a consumer, I really appreciate the imprint law. I don't do business with websites that omit it.