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Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco's $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco Wholesale Corporation. The…
Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco's $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco Wholesale Corporation. The…
Judge Janet Helson of King County Superior Court has granted final approval to Costco’s $14m settlement of the Washington subject-line class action, Aaland v Costco
Some Proton Mail and Proton Meet users on macOS saw malware warnings on 2 October 2026 after Apple revoked one of Proton’s developer accounts. Proton
PH Canada Company, which operates Pizza Hut in Canada, has agreed to pay C$500,000 after a CRTC investigation alleged it sent marketing messages without consent,
OpenAI used its DevDay keynote today to launch Dots, always-on agents that run on its GPT-6 Astra model with their own cloud computer and browser.
The Data & Marketing Association has asked the UK Government to remove the consent requirement for low-risk cookies and similar technologies. Its announcement, published on
France’s data protection regulator has closed its order against Solocal Marketing Services, the company it fined €900,000 in May 2025 for emailing and texting people
The maximum civil penalty for a CAN-SPAM violation will stay at $53,088 per email for the rest of 2026. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed in
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has included GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com in the second round of its Email Security Hall of Fame. Tobias
A federal judge has sent three CEMA subject-line cases back to Washington state court. Nothing has been dismissed.
emailexpert Forum comes to London for the first time on 16 and 17 November. Around 250 people, a Grade I listed church in Marylebone, and
Virgin Media O2 is getting out of email. On 9 September chief operating officer Alan Stott announced that the company is transferring its mailbox service
A Dutch court has rejected GDPR access claims brought by one individual against four retailers. It found the requests were part of a scheme to
H&M Fashion USA Inc. and its Swedish parent, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, are facing a proposed class action in Washington over marketing emails that
Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, has fined BBVA’s Italian branch €5.508 million after a customer kept receiving promotional messages despite opting out through the
A two-person Dutch ESP built a sending stack on European soil, on open source, with no investors. The one US supplier left standing handles the
Microsoft’s service-health record, as extracted for one large tenant, shows three Exchange Online incidents between 31 August and 9 September. None shares a cause with
Validity announced Heatwave on 3 September. It is a domain blocklist drawn from the Validity Intelligence Network, published at lookup.validity.tools. The release describes it as
Microsoft’s September security updates for Exchange Server, released on 8 September, address nine vulnerabilities. Microsoft rates all nine Important. None is rated Critical. Two carry
China’s Measures for the Administration of Online Marketing of Financial Products come into force on 30 September 2026. Eight regulators issued them in April, led
Intuit is defending two proposed shareholder class actions in the Northern District of California. Both name the company, chief executive Sasan Goodarzi and chief financial
Indeed Canada Corp. has agreed to pay C$200,000 after a CRTC investigation alleged it kept emailing people who had opted out. The undertaking took effect
Email marketing platform Selzy is preparing to retire its existing Automations functionality, directing customers towards its newer Omnichannel Automation Scenarios product as the company’s primary
An Irish retailer has pleaded guilty to five charges over unsolicited marketing emails and failures in its unsubscribe process. Brown Thomas Arnotts Limited, which operates
Microsoft says enforcement of a specific anti-spam model contributed to Exchange Online mail delays on 4 September 2026, affecting a subset of traffic involving external
A German court has rejected basic double opt-in logs as sufficient proof that a recipient consented to marketing emails, after an online marketing company relied
Italian email and digital services collective Autistici/Inventati experienced disruption to its mail services shortly after being added to a US sanctions list. On 26 August
Spain’s Guardia Civil has identified two men in connection with a Business Email Compromise attack that used details of an awarded public tender and a
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has told businesses to expect stronger enforcement of the country’s anti-spam law. In its latest CASL enforcement snapshot, the Canadian Radio-television and
Google Workspace Studio has crossed an important line. Its automated flows can now send emails through Gmail, rather than stopping after preparing a draft. Google
The EU’s highest court has ruled that business email remains protected communication, even when it is sent through a company system and contains nothing personal.
Google’s proposed purchase of Spirit Airlines’ internal archive raises a much bigger question than employee privacy: can everything stored in a company’s mailboxes become saleable
Microsoft is placing newly created Exchange Online tenants on a 60-day outbound sending probation, in a change likely to make disposable Microsoft 365 infrastructure considerably
Omnivery has published The State of Email Bots 2026, a research report built on billions of production email events classified in real time between 2020
