I am glad you brought this up.
I get these things on individual/entity emails sent directly to
me. I didn't sign for this. How could they prove I got it?
Per USPS regs and some other fed Agency whose name I've
forgotten, if you receive something in the mail addressed to you,
that you didn't ask for, it is yours, even if a bill is sent with
it requiring you to either return it or pay for it. Most may not
know about this. But this went back into the Sixties when
different mass marketing companies that would send out something
like a medallion to hang somewhere (just an example). Well, the
law/regs were changed to make that a free gift to you because why
should you have to return it at your cost when you hadn't asked
for it?
Enter FAX machines used by attorneys. We need to put CYA verbiage
at the bottom of this document. The question is, is it actually
enforceable? This then went to boiler plate on emails from
medical entities (HIPAA stuff). But the regs tell you that data
must be secured....
So is a statement to the effect of "this being a non-disclosure
thing" enforceable since one had no other relationship to the
sender, such that no NDA had ever been signed?
So, yeah, glad you mentioned this.
Imagine if it had been marked as classified Top Secret EYES
Only..... Could you be charged for having unauthorized classified
data? And just who would you report this to?
On 1/3/2024 4:08 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
A test of another long-winded, non-enforceable corporate
disclaimer perhaps? Don't you just love corporate lawyers.
The named recipient in this case is the IBM-Main list, and
since this list is echoed to a world-accessible newsgroup, no
one posting anything to this list can reasonably expect
anything on this list to be treated as "Confidential" or any
viewing of any item on this list to have been "received in
error". That the views represented are "solely those of the
author" is the only part of the DISCLAIMER that has any
validity in this context. By simply replying to this post
without excluding all of the original post I have violated the
non-enforceable parts of the disclaimer.
JC Ewing
On 1/3/24 10:24, Allan Staller wrote:
Classification: Confidential
test
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