The email address is an address, part of your personally identifiable data. If an identifiable entity in the US sends mass mail to European addresses, then they must have a representative in Europe and comply with the GDPR.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 17:03, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > >> Yes, if you are European, and might get some money as compensation. > > From a US political advocacy group which has no commercial presence in EU? > How does GDPR apply in that situation? > >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:19, Joe Acquisto-j4 <j...@j4computers.com> wrote: >> >>> Gents, >>> >>> I somehow became subscribed to a list, political in nature, in whose mail I >>> have no interest. This is a legitimate AFAIK, US organization. >>> >>> Thus far, several uses of their unsubscribe link had not provided relief. >>> Direct email to the founder and operations manager seem to have been >>> ignored as well. >>> >>> While I can just dump their mail, it offends my finely hones sense of >>> propriety, justice and my all around good nature. Besides, it hoses me off. >>> >>> So, is there some "authority" to which I can report these a**holes? that >>> might have an effect? > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > The world has enough Mouse Clicking System Engineers. > -- Dave Pooser > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 600 days since the first commercial re-flight of an orbital booster (SpaceX)
