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Some Third-Party Email Apps Let Employees Read User Emails
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Google's pizza
- Hello! Gordon's pizza?
- No sir it's Google's pizza.
- So it's a wrong number? Sorry
- No sir, Google bought it.
- OK. Take my order please
- Well sir, you want the usual?
- The usual? You know me?
- According to our caller ID data sheet, in the last 12 times, you ordered pizzawith cheeses, sausage, thick crust.
- OK! This is it ...
- May I suggest to you this time ricotta, arugula with dry tomato.?
- What? I hate vegetables.
- Your cholesterol is not good, sir.
- How do you know?
- We crossed the number of your fixed line with your name, through the subscribers guide.
We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.
- Okay, but I do not want this pizza!,I already take medicine ...
-Excuse me, but you have not taken the medicine regularly, from our commercial database, 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at Drugsale Network.
- I bought more from another drugstore.
- It's not showing on your credit card statement
- I paid in cash
- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement
- I have have other source of cash
- This is not showing as per you last Tax form unless you bought them from undeclared income source.
-WHAT THE HELL?
- I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you.
- Enough! I'm sick of google, facebook, twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an Island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone line and no one to watch me or spy on me
- I understand sir but you need to renew your passport first as it has expired 5 weeks ago
#joke
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I like Edison thus far and am willing to continue on, I have opted out of the scanning though. Hopefully they aren't doing more secret things behind closed doors, but in this day and age who knows.
Edison Privacy Policy (partial)
https://www.edison.tech/privacy.html
Information We Collect
We collect information when you use Edison Mail, the Edison Assistant App and from your use of our Websites.
From Edison Mail
Edison accesses and processes email messages in any email accounts you have connected.By linking our Services to your email or other internet accounts, you authorize us to collect, process, and retain information, including personal information, from those accounts.We use this information to provide our Services to you and to help us and our Trends subscribers aggregate and understand commerce trends.
Commercial Messages. Commercial Messages are emails you receive from businesses about subscriptions, sign-ups/cancellations, any account requests and confirmations, purchases, travel, reservations, event tickets, boarding passes, promotions, bills and package shipments, and similar transactions. We access, store and use Commercial Messages to provide our Services. We extract information from Commercial Messages to provide our services to you and to develop Edison Trends. Commercial Data is de-identified data such as seller, product and price that we extract for Trends.
Edison Privacy Policy (partial)
https://www.edison.tech/privacy.html
Information We Collect
We collect information when you use Edison Mail, the Edison Assistant App and from your use of our Websites.
From Edison Mail
Edison accesses and processes email messages in any email accounts you have connected.By linking our Services to your email or other internet accounts, you authorize us to collect, process, and retain information, including personal information, from those accounts.We use this information to provide our Services to you and to help us and our Trends subscribers aggregate and understand commerce trends.
Commercial Messages. Commercial Messages are emails you receive from businesses about subscriptions, sign-ups/cancellations, any account requests and confirmations, purchases, travel, reservations, event tickets, boarding passes, promotions, bills and package shipments, and similar transactions. We access, store and use Commercial Messages to provide our Services. We extract information from Commercial Messages to provide our services to you and to develop Edison Trends. Commercial Data is de-identified data such as seller, product and price that we extract for Trends.
- We and our subscribers use Commercial Data to develop research about commerce market trends. Learn more about this at: trends.edison.tech
- We never share with subscribers the Commercial Messages or any data that contains personal information, such as your email address, IP address, name, photo, phone numbers, postal addresses (for example, if it is included in your shipping information).
- The purpose of Trends it to create aggregate research and our subscribers are restricted to using Commercial Data for that purpose.
- We prohibit all Trends subscribers from attempting to re-identify users or use the information we share for any purpose other than creating aggregate reports and understanding commerce trends.
Why is Apple letting companies & apps like this onto the App Store?
I guess I don’t check the privacy polities of everything I download - who does? - partly because I trust the App Store to have apps that don’t suck down your data.
At this rate, I’m not going to be using anything third party for my personal data.
I’m sure that there are responsible devs out there, but now I’m not sure who is - and who’s not.
I guess I don’t check the privacy polities of everything I download - who does? - partly because I trust the App Store to have apps that don’t suck down your data.
At this rate, I’m not going to be using anything third party for my personal data.
I’m sure that there are responsible devs out there, but now I’m not sure who is - and who’s not.
Bottom line is no one is 100% all the time with any email app.
The problem is many (if not most consumers) do not read the fine print when signing up for and using an app. And while the pertinent information is buried inside, developers should be proactive and put the subject of this article in the consumers face when signing up and opening up the app. Make the user have to opt in or opt out.
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You should be reading the privacy use etc. for every app you download and install. No real excuse not to. Don't solely rely on Apple.
When I was a child I was taught the following:
"Things and services that are free, often come with the highest cost."
"Things and services that are free, often come with the highest cost."
I’ve been using airmail on macOS and iOS for a long time, it’s such a great email app that I never even thought about reading their privacy policy until I seen this article, after reading it I believe airmail is far worse than Edison could ever hope to be.
In search of a new email app now, will probably end up going back to the stock Apple apps, not sure I can trust any of them on the store.
In search of a new email app now, will probably end up going back to the stock Apple apps, not sure I can trust any of them on the store.
“But you shouldn’t expect me to read the terms!”
Don’t be lazy. Your privacy is in your hands.
Don’t be lazy. Your privacy is in your hands.
Rule #1 in composing emails: Always assume that at some point, whatever you write there could become public knowledge. It was never designed with security in mind, and that's before even getting into issues like targeted ads and spam filtering.
Yes but it would be a violation to use google mail anyway. They do not sign BAAs for gmail so any facility or physician sending would be in violation. If a person voluntarily sends their own info then it is not a violation.
That’s true in theory, however I guess many of us don’t & even if we do, dubious practices were disguised in legalise ie like the privacy policy for Edison. At least we have GDPR in Europe and there’s a California privacy bill a few years our.
True, when you think about it, but often the marketing isn’t clear about how things like this are done, it’s just ‘hey here’s some cool time saving magic!’
Be careful with your emails and what you send. I was amazed when I worked as an Office365 Administrator what access we had. I knew I had good morals but what about the admin next to me or in another state? Nothing on the web is ever secure. We see it in business and government all the time lately.
Seems the same people who scream that everything should be free and open source are the same ones who scream about privacy.
When I tried the app, that wasn’t an option. If you didn’t agree to their privacy compromises, the app wouldn’t function.
This is the reason I always use the built in Apple apps wherever possible (plus it’s just easier since they’re installed by default of course, and are linked to iCloud). Yes, you can find alternatives to Mail, Safari, Maps, Messages, Notes, and just about everything else that have some nice features.
But Apple takes privacy seriously and they are doubling down on it in recent years. I’m not saying it’s impossible that some bug doesn’t leak my data from an Apple app, but I always feel confident they are doing the best they can to protect my data, are not selling it to anyone, and will not use it for nefarious purposes. These days that’s a huge selling point for me.
But Apple takes privacy seriously and they are doubling down on it in recent years. I’m not saying it’s impossible that some bug doesn’t leak my data from an Apple app, but I always feel confident they are doing the best they can to protect my data, are not selling it to anyone, and will not use it for nefarious purposes. These days that’s a huge selling point for me.
I have gmail and I've been using the Gmail iOS app. I stopped using the stock Apple Mail app because it's so much slower at email notifications (it started doing this about a year ago). All my email settings are set to push/fetch, is there a way to fix this issue with the stock apple app?
I've been wanting to try this. Is the Plus service worth it (if you use that one)? Is full "support" really needed? (Not concerned about factors differing between Plus and Free plans. Tnx!
The responsible party might be in trouble - but not the people reading it unless they had reasonable suspicion it was PHI