Edison email app, confirms that it processes user data, but some users had no idea that when using the application, the company scrapers the inbox for profit. The Motherboard presented the declarations of two popular Cleanfox and Slice applications that sell products to corporate customers via email. Edison did not respond to any comments, obscuring the company’s privacy policy, “Edison accesses and processes emails on any connected email accounts and data collected from other online accounts that you link.” Users are disappointed that the confidential documents obtained by the Motherboard inform about the types of companies that want to buy data from scraping the contents of the inbox.

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