06
Jun
By Justin T. Tarka (London) | Ogletree Deakins
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s new privacy law having come into effect on 25 May 2018, thousands of companies have been flooding inboxes in recent weeks with emails asking for consent from recipients, seemingly to comply with the GDPR.
While it is probably reassuring to hear from those that hold particularly sensitive information—banks, for example—perhaps less welcome are emails from companies with whom email recipients may have had merely occasional contact,...