This post was originally posted on the DMA Email Marketing Blog
I think most marketers have heard about email authentication and the use of Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) and the Sender Policy Framework (SPF). If your using an email service provider then its likely that they will handle the authentication for you and you don’t need to worry. But why do emails need to be authenticated ?
Planning on beating the stamp price hike by buying your stamps in bulk? Or trying to work out where the extra money for postal costs will come from?
Then forget about awkward trip to the post office and switch to email instead!
You might think that the idea of email and social network surveillance is some sort of April fool's joke, but believe it or not it’s actually true.
This Big Brother style proposal is not the first time there has been an effort to introduce communications montioring. In 2009 an unsuccessful attempt was made by the government to try and collect communication data - when costs were estimated at £2 billion to implement the project the plans were droppped. So what does this new threat of potential government surveillance mean?
This post was originally posted on the DMA Email Marketing Blog
At the email evolution conference in Miami last year, Yahoo and Hotmail announced that they were looking at allowing dynamic content within an email. ISP’s are concerned about users leaving their site when they follow links in an email. The idea is that when a user clicks on a link they don’t leave the ISP’s site but the content of the link is displayed in the email. This was an encouraging sign that ISP’s would start allowing us to do more with our emails.
In late January 2012, a draft text of the European Union’s new Data Protection Regulation (a wider overhaul of the 1995 Data Protection Directive) was published. The draft is going to be debated and discussed by the European Parliament and by the Council on Ministers, and any changes to the draft regulation could take up to 4 years to come into play.
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