If you've already received consent from users due to earlier regulations or just generally good behaviour, you don't have to do anything else. Many companies will be asking because they use third-party mailing mechanisms (that won't have had the correct consent) or they didn't ask.aMUSEd wrote:What I don't get is how come all the small developers are having to email everyone asking them to opt into newsletters etc, but the larger companies seem able to just get away with am email telling you they 'respect your privacy, but 'If you agree with our Privacy Policy, there’s nothing you need to do'.
There could be other reasons as well (and may well be some bigger companies just ignoring things they shouldn't).