Re:Facebook Lies
by emddudley on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:37PM
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That applies to spam from an unknown sender, not a bona fide company you have a relationship with. Messages from Facebook about your account are hardly unsolicited. I don't think it's useful to call every email you don't like "spam".
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Re:Facebook Lies
by devrandomguy on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:58PM
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If the user didn't opt in to a notification, then by definition, it is unsolicited.
He probably has opted in without noticing. Quick show of hands: How reads all ToS that they agree to?
Whatever the fine-print legalities, if you didn't notice, I don't think it can count as opting in.
No disagreement from my side, but that's how the law generally [1] works.
[1] In Germany, there is a specific section of the public code governing ToS ("AGB-Gesetz", part of the BGB). Among other things, it forbids "unexpected" terms, acknowledging that people usually cannot read all the ToS that they have to agree to in practice. Quite a few ToS have been nullified by courts because of that rule.