When you are using social media
sites, are you frustrated by the number of advertisements that ask you to allow the site or application to
access your contacts list?
Connecticut legislator, Representative Mitch Bolinksy, recently introduced a bill that would limit how often a site
could request access to a user’s contacts list in order to send unsolicited
email marketing messages to a user’s contacts.
The
bill is the first of its kind in the nation and is designed to protect
Connecticut’s consumers from deceptive marketing practices. Presently, upon
gaining access to a user’s contacts list, social media sites and applications can
send unsolicited marketing messages to third parties without the user’s
permission. If this bill passes, social media websites and applications that
operate in the state and presently request access to customers’ contacts lists
will undoubtedly need to revise their marketing approaches.
