Hi SM,
I would not advise my company to collect email addresses for sending spam.
Not because I do not see anything prohibiting it in the DPA but it goes
against the principle of being a good Netizen. A cursory reading of the DPA
does not tell me whether sending unsolicited email is a prosecutable
offence under the DPA.
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:28 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Ajay, Ish,
> At 20:23 02-03-2017, Ajay R Ramjatan wrote:
>
>> It is not clear to me whether an email address constitutes data that
>> falls under the protection as defined by the Data Protection Act. Other
>> countries have very specific legislation against spam. I think it's hard
>> for authorities to tackle local spammers when there is no legislation
>> prohibiting them from engaging in such practices.
>>
>
> Would you advise your company to collect email addresses or use those
> email addresses to send emails when it is not clear whether that practice
> is allowed under the Data Protection Act?
>
> At 21:47 02-03-2017, Ish Sookun wrote:
>
>> I approached CERT-MU for advice; which I did not receive [1]. Recently,
>> I blogged about the « valentine's offers » and wrote to the company. The
>> director replied and apologized. I did not go further with the complaint.
>>
>
> I did not receive a reply to the message at http://lists.elandnews.com/arc
> hive/mauritius/internet-users/2017/02/5977.html
>
> I have not complained to the Data Protection Office regarding
>> unauthorized use of my email addresses in marketing campaigns. Have you
>> been getting spam recently? Did you complain to DPO? I'd like to know
>> about your experience with the DPO as mine with CERT-MU has been very
>> disappointing.
>>
>
> I have not received any spam since I sent that message. I have complained
> to the Data Protection Office previously. My experience is that the
> investigation takes longer than I expected. There was, in my opinion, a
> misunderstanding about the information displayed by email software as there
> seems to be an assumption that it is similar to what is displayed by a
> Microsoft product. I explained that one of the complaint forms available
> from the Data Protection Office was not clear about some of the required
> information.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
Received on Fri Mar 03 2017 - 12:14:21 PST