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Opt-In Stateside, Opt-Out Elsewhere

Regulations on data-driven marketing vary between the E.U., U.S. (state and federal levels), Canada, etc. It can be thorny.

But Act-On's David Fowler offered an overarching primer: In the U.S., opt-out drives regulatory practice. Everywhere else, it's opt-in.

Nonetheless, sorting through the rules isn't always pleasant. Fowler said at the Email Insider Summit he was speaking with a German lawyer yesterday and it "was almost as fun as having a root canal."

 

 

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