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Regional Institute of Fundraising group admits data protection error

Howard Lake | 23 April 2003 | News

One of the regional groups of the Institute of Fundraising has spotted that it has been breaking data protection legislation in each of its e-mail announcements.

The group – we’re not going to embarrass them – made the all-too-common mistake of sending their news announcements via e-mail and including all recipients’ e-mail addresses in the To: field. In this way, all recipients got to see everyone else’s e-mail address.

Of course, they should have used the Bcc: or blind copy field in which to place the recipients’ e-mail addresses.

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It is alarming that in April 2003 fundraisers are still unaware of this basic method of using e-mail. UK Fundraising’s Howard Lake has included this tip in many of his online fundraising training courses since 1995.

The next training course on using e-mail to fundraise takes place in London on 27 June 2003.

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