[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Hi Noah,

 

I just responded to a previous email on this.

 

The law is not about “if you don’t like an email send it to the junk box”. The law is about protecting people privacy and emails are (in most of the countries in the world), personal data.

 

Nobody can use emails for a different purpose as the one they have been provided. Spam is not about “repetitive” emails. Spam is “any” single email that is not authorized, because you didn’t provided the email for that.

 

Saying “send it to the junk box” is like saying a victim of rape (or whatever other crime), is your fault, you were on the wrong streeet on the wrong time, don’t go there.

 

I understand that in some countries this is not the law, but we should respect, when working in the Afrinic enviroment, the laws from Mauritious, which is one of the countries that has already agreed on those data protection regulations (GDPR).

 

Regards,

Jordi

@jordipalet

 

 

 

El 5/7/19 10:51, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> escribió:

 

 

 

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:42 AM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

Hi Noah,

 

I’m sure we all have contacts from lots of people from the community, but we use those contacts for the reason they have been provided, is not lawful to use those for anything else.

 

I have sent some of my contacts an emails that were not related to the original reasons the email was provided for. I have received emails from my contacts and people who are not my contact. I even receive calls from people I don't know and who are not my in my mobile phone contact. If I found the email reasonable, I act on it otherwise I delete it, simple as that.  If you don't like the email, send it to the SPAM/JUNK email, simple as that. If you don't like the phone call, drop it.

 

People share other peoples contacts email/phones and people ask other people about other peoples contacts. In my country, I even receive presidential campaign text messages and sometime from even member of parliament requesting for my vote in the national elections. Candidates and their supports always go so far in outreach activities in order to consolidate support from different constituencies for their preferred candidate and its the nature of political campaigns world over. 

 

If the same email or call is made frequently, then that is a different story.

 

Noah



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