It looks like The Inquirer‘s coverage of Lost Laptop may have resulted in the site/business being removed. David Neal updates us all: LOST LAPTOP, the, er, entrepreneurial website that we took to our hearts, is no more. We couldn’t quite believe the site’s premise when it launched. People who found laptops could send the unit…
Category: Business
German Court Rules on Consent Verification Requirement for Email Marketing
Hunton & Williams LLP writes: On November 3, 2009, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (OLG Düsseldorf, Az. I-20 U 137/09) ruled on the duty to verify consent for email marketing with respect to purchased email addresses. According to the Court, a company that purchases email addresses for marketing purposes must verify customer consent itself…
House Passes Data Accountability Bill
Roy Mark reports: The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Dec. 8 requiring data brokers to establish procedures to verify the accuracy of information that identifies individuals in their databases and to allow consumers to access and request correction of incorrect information. The Data Accountability and Trust Act, approved on a voice vote, would also…
Ca: Publisher collected and used e-mail addresses for marketing without consent
PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-013 The complainant was perturbed by the number of unsolicited e-mails he received from a publisher marketing a Canadian directory of funding sources. Even when he asked the company to remove his various e-mail addresses from its list, the company continued to send him messages. For its part, the company contended that…