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No Reply, Not Your Domain? Yes, Problem

As reported by Ars Technica , security researcher Cory Solovewicz owns the domains noreply.net and noreply.us. Every day, he sees nearly 700 inbound email attempts to addresses on those domains. That is a massive amount of misdirected mail, and it's leaking personally identifiable information (PII) like a sieve. If you are sending mail using noreply.net (or any other domain you don't…
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ESPC Webinar: Evolving EU Regulation of Tracking Pixels

If you've been watching data privacy developments in Europe, you already know that the current rules around open tracking (pixel tracking) in email marketing are ... messy , to put it mildly. The regulatory environments in France (CNIL) and Italy (Garante) have thrown a lot…

CNIL open tracking restrictions are coming and complex

CNIL, France’s data protection and privacy authority , recently announced new restrictions and requirements related to open tracking (aka pixel tracking) and things are relatively complex. The TL;DR is that permission is required before tracking opens, there’s a potential exemp…

Yep, Proton Blocks the Pixels

Did you know? Protonmail blocks most open tracking pixels. Proton Mail is a privacy-focused, encrypted email service intended to protect users' communications from surveillance and unauthorized access. The company Proton AG was founded in 2013 by scientists from CERN and …

iCloud Private Relay issue July 25-28

Were you concerned about a drop in open rates starting on Thursday, July 25th, and running through most of the weekend? It turns out, it's not just you. Apple suffered an outage during that time; the issue affecting their "iCloud Private Relay" functionality (whic…

DMARC reporting: Run away from RUF

Reporting is an important part of DMARC. It provides valuable feedback from mailbox providers to help you identify any problems with authentication of your legitimate emails, and allows you to monitor for fraudulent email misuse of your domain name. But lots of people set up DM…

Apple iOS 17 and LTP: How does it affect email marketing?

In October 2023, Apple released iOS17 and MacOS Sonoma. With it comes some new functionality -- Link Tracking Protection , first announced back in June , and email marketers should be aware of the impact this can have on email links and email link tracking. Let's start with…

Apple: Private Relay vs Private Relay vs Hide my Email

Time to clarify a bit of confusion that I know people are having with Apple's private/hiding methodology for email privacy: Private Relay versus Private Relay versus Hide my Email. Apple's got a couple ways that they let an end subscriber hide their email address from a…

Link roundup: Apple iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma link filtering

Here, find quick links to everything I can find relating to the upcoming Apple privacy changes. Remember what we learned from MPP -- meaning that exactly when and how the functionality launches is still TBD, exactly what this impacts could change over time, and that this will n…

More on iOS17 and Link Tracking Protection

Peter Jakuš, Product Manager for omnichannel marketing automation platform Bloomreach Engagement has put together even more useful information on the upcoming iOS17 privacy protections that will modify links. Great details and examples. Thanks for sharing, Peter!

iOS17 filtering click tracking links

When I recently mentioned that new Apple privacy changes were coming in iOS17 , it was nigh impossible to share exactly what was coming, as I did not have the opportunity to test it myself -- and even if any of us tests it, it could end up working differently when the final ver…

More Apple privacy changes coming

When Apple's iOS 17 and MacOS Sonoma come to the public later this fall, there will be new privacy improvements, as there always are. This time around, Apple's looking to block some tracking methodology by stripping various parameters from URLs. Will it strip parameters…

DuckDuckGo's duck.com email now open to all

Back in 2021 I blogged about DuckDuckGo announcing their new privacy-focused duck.com email service . Fast forward to now and it appears as though the service is now open to all . Yay?

UK/EU GDPR: What is valid consent?

Previously I've talked about the affirmative consent standard found in the US federal anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM). I've found it very useful test when trying to understand if a process is appropriately opt-in our not. Wondering if GDPR has something similar? It does. For …

ProtonMail's Enhanced Tracking Protection: A new privacy protection hybrid

Today’s guest post comes from my colleague Jennifer Nespola Lantz, VP of Industry Relations and Deliverability at Kickbox, keeping us updated on yet another change that affects email privacy and tracking. Take it away, Jennifer! 🔔 Ding, ding, ding 🔔 More fun updates about pri…

Apple iOS 15 Mail Privacy Protection Changes: A roundup

Is this every possible blog post or FAQ page explaining Apple's MPP changes aka the death of open tracking? No, probably not. But here's a bunch. Some I found myself, others were shared with me by many kind folks in the deliverability space. If you want to work your way…

DuckDuckGo launches new tracker-blocking duck.com email domain

It sounds a bit like HEY.com (or more like Apple's upcoming email privacy features ) but I think it will be free and perhaps an alternative for those looking to block email tracking outside of the Apple or HEY.com ecosystems. DuckDuckGo will supposedly strip out tracking c…

Apple WWDC Announcement: Privacy and Pixel Tracking

On Monday, Apple announced at WWDC that iOS 15's Mail application will include important new privacy features, specifically masking of IP addresses and blocking open detection pixel tracking. This, of course, amounts to a significant change, and is likely to impact how wel…

Spam in a post-GDPR world?

Spam levels are down a bit, according to various reports . Is GDPR to thank? Truth be told, Spamhaus says, that GDPR actions taken by legitimate companies sending legitimate mail might have reduced the amount of mail they send, wanted or unwanted, but those companies weren'…

Gmail to flag unencrypted email connections

In November, Google indicated that they're working on a warning indicator to be shown inside of Gmail, indicating when an email message was transmitted over an unencrypted connection. What does it mean when an email message was sent without using an encrypted connection? I…