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Re:Ask HN: Twoo.com creating accounts on invite, how legal is this?
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).
Re:Ask HN: Would there be a way to limit a website to geographically l...
on Friday November 24, 2017 @06:40AM (#15770581)
Use a CDN then block every other country. CF has a country code variable in the session data. Other CDNs have something similar.