Re: [dmarc-ietf] Ticket #55 - Clarify legal and privacy implications of failure reports

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Tue, 22 December 2020 16:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Ticket #55 - Clarify legal and privacy implications of failure reports
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On 12/22/20 1:22 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>
> NEW
>
>    Failure reports provide detailed information about the failure of a 
> single
>    message or a group of similar messages failing for the same 
> reason.  They
>    are meant to aid extreme cases where a domain owner is unable to 
> detect why
>    failures reported in aggregate form did occur.  As an extension of 
> other
>    kinds of failure notifications, these reports can contain either 
> the content
>    of a failed message or just its header.  The latter characteristic 
> entails
>    severe privacy concerns.  For that reason, and because it turned 
> out not to
>    be important, failure reporting is usually disabled.
>
I'm not understanding what this "severe privacy concerns" are. It looks 
like a glorified bounce message to me. My messages pass through the 
originating domain in the clear, but it only becomes a "severe privacy 
concern" when it is reflected back? How does that work?

Mike