DO YOU still want to hear from us? The biggest overhaul in digital rights in more than 20 years is finally here , and it’s creating a wave of spam.

Organisations of all stripes – from Facebook to the UK government to that hipster coffee shop on the corner you once gave your email address to – have been filling inboxes with variations on the same question, in anticipation of a European Union regulation that comes into force on 25 May.

A central tenet of the new…