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04-28-2017, 05:51 PM
Unroll.me's shadiness is exactly why people don't trust tech companies
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When The New York Times reported the popular inbox-cleaning app Unroll.me was providing a**nymized user data to Uber (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/tech**logy/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html) as part of the ride-hailing company's bid to crush competition from Lyft, the backlash was swift.
Outraged users took to Twitter, bashing the company and pledging to delete the service. CEO Jojo Hedaya quickly apologized, but it did little to quell the outrage. Later, Unroll.me cofounder Perri Chase wrote an impassioned defense of Hedaya on Medium.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's 'Town Hall' is probably the best thing the social network has ever done (http://mashable.com/2017/03/27/facebook-town-hall-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"Data is pretty much the only business model for email and Unroll.me is **t the only company that looks at, collects and sells your data," Chase — who is ** longer part of the company — wrote. "There was ** intentional malice done by Jojo or anyone at Unroll.me." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/unroll-me-privacy-policy-trust/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When The New York Times reported the popular inbox-cleaning app Unroll.me was providing a**nymized user data to Uber (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/tech**logy/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html) as part of the ride-hailing company's bid to crush competition from Lyft, the backlash was swift.
Outraged users took to Twitter, bashing the company and pledging to delete the service. CEO Jojo Hedaya quickly apologized, but it did little to quell the outrage. Later, Unroll.me cofounder Perri Chase wrote an impassioned defense of Hedaya on Medium.
SEE ALSO: Facebook's 'Town Hall' is probably the best thing the social network has ever done (http://mashable.com/2017/03/27/facebook-town-hall-launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"Data is pretty much the only business model for email and Unroll.me is **t the only company that looks at, collects and sells your data," Chase — who is ** longer part of the company — wrote. "There was ** intentional malice done by Jojo or anyone at Unroll.me." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/28/unroll-me-privacy-policy-trust/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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