An investigative report by Motherboard based on a J P Morgan report blows the lid off on how companies sell your email data. Some of the companies listed in the J.P. Morgan document sell data sourced from “personal inboxes,” the document adds.
How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails – Motherboard
The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users’ email inboxes and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, travel, and e-Commerce sectors. The contents of Edison users’ inboxes are of particular interest to companies who can buy the data to make better investment decisions, according to a J.P. Morgan document obtained by Motherboard.
The link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spying-on-you-edison-slice-cleanfox
via: Vice
