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What prevents 23andMe from simply deleting the opt-out emails they receive and claiming they never received anything, in case someone did sue them?
by CrendKing 3y ago
What prevents 23andMe from simply deleting the opt-out emails they receive and claiming they never received anything, in case someone did sue them?
- houston_Euler 3y agoWouldn't the sender have a time-stamped copy?
- justneedaname 3y ago2 Generals problem
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoCourts aren't dumb, though. It's a lot harder for an average person to fake something in their gmail outbox than it is for someone working for a corporation to delete emails from an inbox. Google could also possibly be sent a subpoena.
- mminer237 3y agoThe sender could simply show in his outbox that he did send such and 23andMe would be in even worse legal trouble then?
- CrendKing 3y agoI asked because unlike paper mail where the deliverer is one trust-able government/commercial body, email by its distributed nature is delivered by hosts everywhere in the internet. How does plaintiff generally gather evidence to prove the email was indeed delivered in these cases?