Blind Carbon Copy or BCC is a throwback to when every correspondence was in paper copy. As we all know in 2022, email is the key format of all business communications, and we still have CC and BCC. BCC allows us to easily send messages without any of the receiving parties knowing who is on the email. Is using BCC an ethical or privacy violation? Are there good reasons to use BCC in your communications? I think in certain circumstances both questions can be answered in the affirmative.

Many people use the BCC when emailing a large group of people and wanting to keep from disclosing all their personal emails to each other. This is a completely acceptable and above-board reason to use BCC. It prevents you from violating privacy concerns and protects the recipient’s privacy. Another good reason to use the BCC function is for record-keeping purposes—in other words to send yourself or another record keeper a copy of the email. The use of Bcc is not always an ethical dilemma but has real purpose and effective uses.

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