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Unroll.me – the service for canceling subscriptions to various newsletters from a single page – has closed a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the United States government agency which among other things deals with privacy, for the removal of a large amount of personal data collected from its users and shared with other companies without their knowledge. The agreement came a couple of years after the first journalistic investigations which revealed how Unroll.me, a service that was becoming very popular to more easily manage subscriptions to its newsletters, adopted practices to resell its users' data without notifying them explicitly.
Registering on a site or purchasing a product online often implies that you are subscribed to a newsletter, sometimes without even realizing it, with which companies can periodically reach their customers to provide information via email about their products and their services. Registration often occurs at the same time as creating an account, and is one of the many options to choose from along with those for giving consent to the use of your personal data. The result is that over time you find yourself subscribed to dozens of newsletters, with the consequent complications of unsubscribing from each of them.
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