Without Fine, FTC Settles With Company Over Mishandling Email Data
An email management company falsely told consumers it wouldn’t “touch” their personal messages but shared email receipts with its parent company, the FTC said Thursday, announcing a nonmonetary settlement. Unroll.me is required to delete the personal data it collected from…
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consumers and faces penalties up to $42,530 for future violations. Enhancing consumer privacy can come at the price of limiting consumer choice and competition, Commissioner Noah Phillips said in a statement on the 5-0 decision, citing separate action from Google. Unroll.me will update its policies and continue allowing consumers the option to grant access to their data, he said. But Google in response to privacy concerns in 2018 decided to limit third-party apps from using Gmail data for marketing and ad purposes, Phillips said. The decision enhances consumer privacy but limits choice and competition by imperiling the business models of third-party email extensions, he said.