Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

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In message <[email protected]>, Alessandro Vesely
<[email protected]> writes

>On Sun 22/Dec/2013 18:27:53 +0100 Seth wrote:
>> Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Probably my idea from over a decade ago (I have no idea how long):
>> confirmation requests would be sent to the user's ISP, who would
>> generate the confirmation web link and send it to the user.  The
>> confirmation would go through the ISP, so the ISP would *know* that this
>> user subscribed to this list.
>
>Yeah, there are lots of similar variations.  The advantage of this
>arrangement is that the ISP (well, the mailbox provider) can confirm
>the user really wants to subscribe at a moment when he or she knows
>what subscription they're talking about.

In both "data protection" and "privacy" regimes you would need the
subscriber's explicit and informed permission to proactively reveal to
the ISP (a third party) which mailing lists had been subscribed to.

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

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Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755

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