Hi Laura > > There is no need to involve a lawyer. > > There is if you’re asking a company to release customer information > to you. Which is what your request of Mailchimp is.
Could you please provide legal background to your statement? I have been in contact with the legal advisers of OFCOM Switzerland and Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC). They confirmed to me, that any individual can request such information from a company without the need to get it via a layer (which would generate unnecessary costs). > > For this you need the identity of the sender first. So if you try to > > file a complaint without knowing the identity of the sender, the > > police will tell you to first make use of the applicable laws and > > to contact the ISP of the sender to provide the identity of the > > sender. > > That’s what you need the lawyer for - to get the ISP of the sender to > release their customer information. I have been told otherwise, which I am sure you can quickly verify by sending an email to OFCOM or the FDPIC requesting advice on the legal procedure to follow. I'm pretty sure that this works similarly for most other countries as such laws tend to be coordinated intenationaly. I'm not so sure about the US and this is what I try to find out. -Benoît Panizzon- -- I m p r o W a r e A G - Leiter Commerce Kunden ______________________________________________________ Zurlindenstrasse 29 Tel +41 61 826 93 00 CH-4133 Pratteln Fax +41 61 826 93 01 Schweiz Web http://www.imp.ch ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
