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Re:Ask HN: Twoo.com creating accounts on invite, how legal i... by cyberfart on Friday November 24, 2017 @04:46AM (#15770317)
It's not. I'm just a pissed of person annoyed by scummy user acquisition practices.

And I suspected that in EU, storing e-mail addresses without user's permission might actually be illegal.

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Re:Ask HN: Twoo.com creating accounts on invite, how legal i... by throwaway4816 on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:57AM (#15770624)
The EU has the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC. Article 13 prohibits the use of email addresses for marketing purposes. The Directive establishes the opt-in regime, where unsolicited emails may be sent only with prior agreement of the recipient.

The Internet is the wild wild west, lots of scummy practices (including shadow profiles).

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