• @beckerist@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been wondering this myself so I just went ahead and read the FCCs CAN-SPAM business compliance guide.

      This is 100% a violation. As per section 7:

      You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days. You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request

      OP could probably threaten a lawsuit and their practices will change quickly. That’s assuming the company does business in the US…

      edit: just realized this is stubhub. this smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen

      • @guacupado@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days.

        Oh, this explain why they say “may take up to 10 business days.” Why do they have two weeks to remove a name when it can be done near-instantly? It’s not like a person is manually removing every single name that opts out.