email given out.is this legal?

hollydays

I did some work for a certain mystery customer company.i have just got an email from them.As well as the subject matter their is a header which gives a long list of all the email addresses it was sent to,including my own.I dont give my email out to anyone.Can they do this.Other people in the list now have my email address

flyer

only if you expressly gave them permission to do so. Did you tick a box allowing them?

Browntoa

data protection act says no if a UK registered site, so complain to the dato protection people, the header should not display all the email addresses

http://www.ico.gov.uk/eventual.aspx?id=35

if a Us site not much you can do about it

hjb123

It has probably been a genuine mistake and they havent meant to give out everyones email addresses! You are probably getting all upset over nothing and the company has clicked the wrong button!

When I get emails from the mystery shopping company that I do work for I can only nornally see my email address only - even though I can tell it has gone to a whole long list - but cant see everyone elses names or email addresses - theyve probably just clicked a wrong button or had a trainee on!

hollydays

Thanks-think you are right-thats why i will ring the company first tommorow!

trickytrolleys

why have an email address if you dont give it out ?

hjb123

mcelhinney wrote:

why have an email address if you dont give it out ?

Think what the earlier poster means is doesnt put it on mailing lists etc! Just uses for correspondence?

sammysmum

A couple of companies have been guilty of this of late. I would take it up with the company involved and express your unhappiness at it. I have complained in writing to one company recently because my details should have been removed and were not so I am taking it further.

After all it is not rocket science to BCC recipients.

UKays_Finest

Unless your the Queen of Sheba, I don't see why it matters.

Savvy_Sue

sammysmum wrote:

After all it is not rocket science to BCC recipients.

No, it's not, but it is something that can easily be missed. I have occasionally failed to BCC a general email we send out from work, and always feel a right numpty afterwards.

Having said that, I'm surprised at a big company doing this: I'd have thought they'd have their systems set up better than mine are so that this just doesn't happen! DH (small charity like me) has set up some distribution lists where you don't have to BCC them to keep the email addresses hidden, but he's more techie minded than me, and I think the words 'server' or 'web-based' have been mentioned a few times ...

UKays_Finest wrote:

Unless your the Queen of Sheba, I don't see why it matters.

It may not matter all that much, but I regard it as a courtesy NOT to have my email address distributed to all and sundry. I get quite a few emails at work where a huge number of other email addresses are plainly revealed. Plus if anyone then hits 'reply to all' (which you can't do with BCC) then I get a load of irrelevant replies.

hollydays

to uk finest-clearly personal safety is high on my agenda,not yours.