IP records are not proof of consent to marketing emails, German court rules
( October 5, 2026, 09:49 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A German travel and online marketing company has lost its legal challenge to a formal warning from North Rhine-Westphalia’s data protection commissioner over sending unsolicited advertising emails, the watchdog said. In a statement, it said Düsseldorf’s Administrative Court found that the IP addresses and DOI-IP addresses presented by the company were insufficient to substantiate consent from a man who had complained about receiving unsolicited promotional emails from the firm. An IP address only identified a technical device, not who was using it, the data protection commissioner said.Statement follows in German. ...
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