Activities / What code does / Sends automated outreach
Sends commercial email
sends_commercial_email
Your app sends marketing or other commercial email by itself.
- scope code
- in the registry since 1.16
- 57 laws in 44 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It sends marketing or other commercial email that the software initiates, rather than a person sending each one. A receipt or a password reset alone is not this.
This covers a newsletter, a promotional campaign, and a cold-email sequence.
What does not
A receipt or a password reset alone does not count, and neither does an email a person writes and sends by hand.
It implies Sends automated outreach, so the rules written for every channel reach it too.
Often confused with Sends automated outreach and Sends automated texts.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
| Area of law | Laws | Jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|
|
Communications law
Get consent before marketing, calling, recording or storing data on a device, and honor an opt-out.
|
56 | 43 |
|
Scraping law
Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.
|
1 | 1 |
This activity implies Sends automated outreach, so every law that names that activity reaches it too. These areas of law reach it only that way:
- Privacy law:
123 laws in
94 jurisdictions,
through Sends automated outreach
Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.
- Cybersecurity law:
114 laws in
75 jurisdictions,
through Sends automated outreach
Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.
- Product and AI liability law:
26 laws in
24 jurisdictions,
through Sends automated outreach
Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.
- AI law:
7 laws in
7 jurisdictions,
through Sends automated outreach
Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.
Counterparties that usually come with it
- an email delivery service
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
A library or framework that makes this possible enables
it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.
For a library
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.16, .
Added for CAN-SPAM Act (United States), the law that turns on it.
In the glossary: Sends commercial email.
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