Please don't share my email with Amazon without my express consent

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39 points·krishy··5 comments

In regards to GPDR, it seems unreasonable that a company should have to attempt to determine which country or region applicable laws would apply to a instance and interaction of its users.

I wonder the legality of saying somewhere in the terms and services if you have a statement like "by using an account, you agree that you are in the US, and all interactions with this site will be governed by the applicable laws of this country" (forgive my primitive legalese.)

because at the moment having EUs compliance to work with is once thing, but say in 10 years when every other country (or collective) starts to pass their own, it will be a nightmare to navigate.

It seems to have the potential, of how insurance companies in the US have to have large compliance departments whose sole purpose is to try to insure the company is in compliance with every market they are doing business in.

I cant count how many times i've been CC'd on a chain i wish that nobody could see my email address.

Legitimate question: Don't you have to give Amazon your email address to get an account and use the gift card anyway?

An email address. Not necessarily the one you use with stackoverflow or any other site.

But stackoverflow asked users to provide an email address for the gift card as part of the survey.

Speaking from my past experience when running surveys like this at a startup, you are given the option to get a claim code to send to your customers, or to provide their emails for a one-off direct gift card message. The latter was safer because there is no handling of sensitive financial info (a live gift card code is effectively cash).

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