Hello I'm not sure if I'm right here, but as I work at an ISP I hope to mybe find competent answers here :-)
I am a french citizen living in switzerland. Two years ago I had to renew my french ID and did so in the french embassy. I was asked if I had an email address to get a notification, when I could come and pick it up. I have not got any more emails from the embassy since. About two weeks ago, I started to get an incredible ammount of political spam refering to the french elections. Some of the emails state that they are not spam, because they comply with: Article L330-4 Code électoral. Does this realy apply to email addresses given to the embassy for other purposes, like getting a notification when to pick up an ID? Anyway, I never agreed that my email address is put on a liste électorale and never premitted the french embassy to hand out my email address or other personal data to marketing companies who now work for the elections and tomorrow will promptly reuse my data for any other email campaign or sell it to anyone wanting to buy it from them. I did try to unsubscribe from some of those lists, unsuccessfully. I still get their 'newsletters'. Is there anything else which can be legaly done against political spam? Like for example in switzerland, the 'Préposé fédéral à la protection des données et à la transparence' website offers templates for legal letters to send to companies and authorities to request them to send you and extract of your data and delete it. Is there something similar in france? -Benoît Panizzon- SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM / Hormel's new miracle meat in a can Tastes fine, saves time. / If you want something grand, / Ask for SPAM! - Hormel's 1937 jingle for SPAM Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia sh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
