by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
Fifty million euros for Orange. Three hundred and twenty-five million for Google. Two decisions, two operators, one shared reasoning. And a consequence the market has not yet measured: advertising displayed inside an inbox is direct marketing by electronic mail, with...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
A browser extension. You visit a LinkedIn profile, you click, and the personal phone number appears, along with the work address. One hundred and sixty million records built that way. Two hundred and forty thousand euros in fines, and an injunction. The French data...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
On 15 May 2025 the French data protection authority issued two sanctions on the same day, against two players in the same chain. Nine hundred thousand euros for one, eighty thousand for the other. Neither company had collected the addresses it was exploiting. That is...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
A rule has been circulating for twenty years: the GDPR supposedly requires double opt-in, that confirmation message sent after a signup, which you must click to be truly subscribed. We looked for the text. It does not exist. Not in the GDPR, not in the ePrivacy...
by Francis Rozange | Sep 8, 2026 | Emailing
Since June 2025 you have been told that your emails must be accessible, and that the European directive requires it. We have read the directive. The word “email” does not appear in it once. Which does not mean the subject does not exist. It means the...