06Dec

Is it legal for a potential employer to distribute your email address to other applicants?

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I submitted a resume and cover letter to a company for a position. Within a week I received a general Thanks/No Thanks email saying other candidates better fit their qualifications. Typical, not a problem with that. However, the “To” field of the email listed all the other candidates that had applied and didn’t qualify. I didn’t authorize this company to share my email address with anyone. Is it legal for them to do this?

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Categories: Law & Legal

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at 11:08 pm and is filed under Law & Legal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Is it legal for a potential employer to distribute your email address to other applicants?”

  1. Posted by Chris 9th December, 2009 at 1:55 am

    I don’t think so.

  2. Posted by mailaccount63 11th December, 2009 at 7:55 am

    My employer has given my email address to ALL of the other employees (about one thousand employees). I was NOT asked first - it was just done.

  3. Posted by DiscussNY 12th December, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    I am not a lawyer. Is it illegal? I doubt it. Since anyone can call up the employers HR department and ask if you have submitted a resume I doubt there is much of any other protection in place regarding your privacy in this case. If you do not want your information shared with others I’d note it right on the resume.

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