28Apr

Is it illegal for (Presidential candidates) to send out a mass email?

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This is a “political/technology law” kind of question.
Imagine if Barack was paying yahoo to send out a mass email to all of the users in yahoo’s directory. is that legal? isn’t that like some kind of privacy act thing? or what? if they could why haven’t they?

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Categories: Law & Ethics

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 10:22 pm and is filed under Law & Ethics. 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 illegal for (Presidential candidates) to send out a mass email?”

  1. Posted by Free Thinker 2nd May, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Would you pass a law restricting what you could do to get yourself elected?

    Of course not.

  2. Posted by AJ 3rd May, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    The person could not pay your ISP to do it. However, they can buy lists from information brokers and send out mail to all the e-mail addresses that they get that way. It is kind of like junk mail in you mail box. If you do not like, delete it.

  3. Posted by Trent 6th May, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    There is a law called the can spam act. Google it. The person must opt in to the mailing, it must have an option to unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe they can not email you anymore

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