Re: questions about blocking disclaimers

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>]

On 06 Aug 2007 06:27:51 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org> writes:
>
> > Out of interest I have had long arguments in my workplace about such
> > disclaimers, and it has been alleged that EU Data Protection law (as
> > applied in the UK at least) pretty much requires that any mail sent
> > from a business (including any employees) has to include them. It was
> > a hard fight to prevent them being added to all our email, and
> > allegedly omitting them is being done at some risk to the company
> > directors. I doubt this should change the policy, but it does show
> > that the only solution people may have is not to post from their work
> > at all, so giving them time to arrange an alternative would some
> > reasonable.
>
> I disbelieve that EU law requires you to add anything like "if you are
> not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please destroy it."  Those
> are the problematic cases for us.
>

This is my cursory understanding as well (I am not an EU law specialist).
I have seen laws in various EU countries that *do arguably require the
place of business's address be listed*, but this is really different.

> Ian
>