EPISODE · Apr 26, 2017 · 5 MIN
How to Stop Services Like Unroll.me From Snooping on Your Gmail
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
The pitch has plenty of appeal: Sign up for our service, and we’ll automatically unsubscribe you from all those pesky email lists. For free! Except, not quite; as it turns out, you end up paying in privacy. That’s just one revelation from a bombshell New York Times look at Uber, which showed how Unroll.me, the service described above, scans the email accounts of its users for information as granular as Lyft receipts to anonymize, package, and sell on the lucrative data market. Unroll. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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