Unroll.me Settles FTC Allegations That It Deceived Consumers About How it Accesses and Uses Emails

Unroll.me, a firm that helps people manage their email list subscriptions but also sells users' data for profit, has settled with the FTC after allegations of deceiving consumers, the agency said. In a press release, the agency wrote: In a complaint, the FTC alleges that Unrollme , falsely told consumers that it would not "touch" their personal emails, when in fact it was sharing the users' email receipts (e-receipts) with its parent company, Slice Technologies. E-receipts are emails sent to consumers following a completed transaction and can include, among other things, the user's name, billing and shipping addresses, and information about products or services purchased by the consumer. Slice uses anonymous purchase information from Unrollme users' e-receipts in the market research analytics products it sells. Unrollme helps users unsubscribe from unwanted subscription emails and consolidates wanted email subscriptions into one daily email called the Rollup. The service requires users to provide Unrollme with access to their email accounts.

Didn't Unsubscribe

[Luthair]

Unfortunately my sister signed up for unroll.me when she happened to mention to me and I advised her against giving access to her email she removed and started getting emails again. So presumably they just delete the incoming emails instead of actually unsubscribing from the list.

So a company breaks the law......

[Puls4r]

And they have to explain to their customers that they broke the law. Thanks FTC. Way to stand up for customers again. A REAL solution would have been to have this company forfeit all profits made by the elicit use of emails, and give that money to the people who were harmed. You know.... fine the company? Hello?

I break the speed limit once, I have to give the government money. A company commits a serious breach of privacy tens of thousands of times, and they just have to tell people they did it.