Questions tagged [email]
Questions relating to the law as it applies to email
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Can I be legally compelled, in the U.S., to return/destroy old work emails that are on my own laptop?
I used to work remotely and had my own hardware, etc. The company used Microsoft exchange (or similar) to run their email, store it on servers, etc. They killed my email account when I left but all my ...
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Privacy policy for a non profit emailing list?
I am have recently created a website, where users can supply their email to receive mock programming briefs, once a day, for 32 days.
I would like to know what I need to include within a privacy ...
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Does CAN-SPAM apply for emails sent on behalf of users?
If there were a service/website that allowed a user to send invites to email addresses for the purpose of joining the user on the service/website, would that fall under the domain of the CAN-SPAM act?
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Is there an email directory of police departments and sheriffs offices for submitting FOI requests?
I have been doing research related to FOI (Freedom of Information) fees and itemized invoices in particular. In this effort I have been contacting a number of departments and offices (ideally all) in ...
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Can someone force me to delete a particular email?
Let's look at the following scenario: institution X holds a webinar, and after it is finished sends a follow-up email to all the participants leaking their email addresses in the CC field of the email ...
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Ownership of email
I am employed for a company (in New Zealand) that has its own domain and which runs their own mail server. At the time of my employ I was at liberty to forward email from (myemail)@(company.name) to ...
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Sending 1 email as invite to generated emails
I did some research regarding this question but all I could find was that email has to contain From, Subject forms, etc and unsubscribe links/button.
But how about if I want to send an invitation to ...
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Cancel accounts someone else created using my email address
I have somebody that uses my email address to sign up for many services.
Often I get an order confirmation email with this person's actual street address, or other more private pieces of information, ...
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What is the legal definition of an "as of" date in the banking world?
My American Express credit card account is being sold to Barclaycard because JetBlue was not able to "reach terms" with American Express.
JetBlue has been sending communications via email that this ...
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My school have monitored my emails - I sent a distasteful email. Can I get in trouble?
I live in the UK.
I recently sent an email to a group of my friends (only close friends) about an incident that has happened recently at my school through the school email (which operates through ...
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Mortgage company sent full name, SSN, DOB, and address over email
Just as I said in the title. My mortgage company sent me a document I need to sign via unencrypted email and unfortunately it was pre-filled with my full name, SSN, DOB, and home address. I'm very ...
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Received emails from previous domain owner
I've recently bought a domain name which is written differently than an already existing domain name. That already existing domain is owned by a company.
I've set up a wildcard redirect for all ...
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Does data protection apply under a power of attorney relationship?
I have hired a relocation company to help me with dealing with the immigration office and I have signed a power of attorney so that they can visit the authorities and get feedback on my application on ...
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Publicly sharing information obtained over e-mail (no NDA)
For data analysis purposes, I would like to request an offer / overview of product features with various companies, posing as a prospecting customer over e-mail.
I would like to analyse this data and ...
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Anonymously forwarding emails
I was thinking about making this as a side project to generate traffic on my Canadian website...
Let's say I create a service similar to yopmail.com whereas I allow users to generate email addresses ...