Are messaging messages legal?

Question

Law in IT

I see a lot of companies that offer mailings via telegram, whatsapp, viber.
Of course, they work informally. I wonder how legal such activity is?
Interested in the USA

Answer 1

Legal. You are using the possibilities of a social network, and not flooding / hacking, so everything is legal.

Answer 2

IANAL. TINLA.
While the CAN-SPAM Act predates the dominance of proprietary email networks (what you call "messengers"), and applies unequivocally to standard email in places, it otherwise applies to them as well. There were precedents, see for example. Facebook Inc. v. MaxBounty Inc.
That is, yes, they are legal; in the sense that there are conditions under which the advertising mailing does not violate the law.

Answer 3

Are you seriously asking here about US and/or individual state laws?

Answer 4

At a minimum, in some states (in particular California), messages from instant messengers and social networks are subject to the CAN-SPAM Act , so mailings must comply with its requirements.

Answer 5

legal until they get caught

Answer 6

I use the services of the Wepster service, I asked if they could send to Instagram, they refused because Instagram doesn’t have a legal api yet for working with messages, while others do, and even before sending, you need the person himself to give the go-ahead for this, then- have subscribed