Daniel Crawford
New member
I have been involved in the development of an email outreach process that I am now overseeing that I am not sure is legal. As part of the process, we scrape people's names and companies (together with other information) from LinkedIn profiles without their consent. We then enrich this data with email addresses using email matching software. We then send out unsolicited marketing emails to these email addresses. We then sell the emails of people that do not unsubscribe as opt-ins on to our clients who will then send further emails to them.
Should I be worried working on this process? If the company gets sued, am I at risk of being implicated? Does it make any difference if I back out now or continue working on it? I'm self employed, however, I am really working as a senior manager and working on this under the direction of the CEO. The company is very small and registered abroad.
We know that this process is not legal in many countries, however, is it legal if we email customers only in the United States and focus on business contacts only?
Should I be worried working on this process? If the company gets sued, am I at risk of being implicated? Does it make any difference if I back out now or continue working on it? I'm self employed, however, I am really working as a senior manager and working on this under the direction of the CEO. The company is very small and registered abroad.
We know that this process is not legal in many countries, however, is it legal if we email customers only in the United States and focus on business contacts only?