Channel 5 Gave Hunter Biden a List of Its Subscribers’ Emails for Some Reason
YouTube channel Channel 5 shared its subscriber email list with Hunter Biden to promote his memecoin, which a privacy lawyer says likely breaches GDPR.
Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, confirmed it handed Hunter Biden a CSV of newsletter subscriber emails so he could promote his new memecoin. Data protection lawyer Neil Brown of Decoded Legal said the sharing likely conflicts with GDPR and that subscribers never consented to third-party direct marketing. The channel's own privacy policy had stated it does not disclose subscriber data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
- Channel 5 says it gave Hunter Biden a CSV of subscriber emails to expand his audience.
- Lawyer Neil Brown says the sharing likely breaches GDPR and lacked marketing consent.
- The channel's privacy policy had promised no third-party disclosure for direct marketing.
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Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new memecoin, a move that a data privacy expert told 404 Media is likely illegal in some jurisdictions.
Callaghan has repeatedly interviewed Biden on camera. Apparently over the cross of that source and interviewer relationship, Biden “asked if he could use our mailing list whenever he launched a new product,” according to a statement posted by Channel 5 to X on Monday. The statement said that Channel 5 did actually provide Biden with real user data: “We provided him a simple csv sheet from our email list to help him expand his audience.”
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