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…
Category: Non-U.S.
Security database super-agency’s powers should be limited, says EU privacy watchdog
The European Commission should limit the expansion of an agency it plans to create to operate the European Union’s visa and asylum databases, according to the EU’s data protection watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The Commission has proposed the creation of an agency to run the databases behind the second Schengen Information System…
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…
UK: Information Commissioner urges organisations to give individuals more privacy choices online
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Today the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is launching an online consultation on a new draft code of practice which will provide organisations with a practical and common sense approach to protecting individuals’ privacy online. The new draft guidance explains how the law applies and calls on organisations to give people…