Businesses not allowed to sell your email after you unsubscribe [Video]

Billions of emails are sent and received by people all over the world every day. Many of these emails are marketing promotions sent from a variety of companies.

VERIFY viewer Lynda says she gets a lot of these promotional emails. She asked our team in a text message if a business can sell a person’s email address after they unsubscribe from its mailing list. 

THE QUESTION

Are businesses allowed to sell your email address after you unsubscribe from their mailing list?

THE SOURCES

THE ANSWER

No, businesses are not legally allowed to sell your email address after you unsubscribe from their mailing list.

WHAT WE FOUND

The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003— widely known as the CAN-SPAM Act — is a federal law …