![I’m very careful with how I give out my email address, only giving my email to services I trust without a doubt. As a result, I get almost zero spam: no more than 5 spam messages per week, most of which are sent to Google Groups I’m a part of that don’t filter their messages. This is why it caught me by surprise when I received 3 spam messages today, all of which sent to the email address I gave to Seesmic. The image above is a screenshot of one of these messages in my spam folder.
Seesmic, however, is a company I’d expect to trust. After getting spam through them, I tried to find their privacy policy… only to find out they don’t have a privacy policy yet. How am I to know what they’re doing with my information?
Even their terms of service is incomplete: “Feedback may be submitted to [Insert Email].” The TOS (being the only thing available without a privacy policy) also doesn’t have anything regarding how they keep my email address private… or rather: how they don’t.
Anyone have any insight?
Reply @bluepojo #seesmic
Updates:
Seesmic is looking into the spam issue: http://twitter.com/askseesmic/status/6807832029
and I’m apparently not the only one: http://twitter.com/BeyondHostile/status/6813476081
Update2:
It’s not Seesmic’s fault!
Apparently AWeber is to blame here. Fortunately for me, I can block <myemail>+seesmic@gmail.com and be spam free once again, then sign up for Seesmic’s newsletter again, but for many people that’s not an option.
Sucks that Seesmic gets put in a bad light for AWeber’s failure.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv79gpFFy1qzo4qzo1_r1_400.png)
I’m very careful with how I give out my email address, only giving my email to services I trust without a doubt. As a result, I get almost zero spam: no more than 5 spam messages per week, most of which are sent to Google Groups I’m a part of that don’t filter their messages. This is why it caught me by surprise when I received 3 spam messages today, all of which sent to the email address I gave to Seesmic. The image above is a screenshot of one of these messages in my spam folder.
Seesmic, however, is a company I’d expect to trust. After getting spam through them, I tried to find their privacy policy… only to find out they don’t have a privacy policy yet. How am I to know what they’re doing with my information?
Even their terms of service is incomplete: “Feedback may be submitted to [Insert Email].” The TOS (being the only thing available without a privacy policy) also doesn’t have anything regarding how they keep my email address private… or rather: how they don’t.
Anyone have any insight?
Reply @bluepojo #seesmic
Updates:
Seesmic is looking into the spam issue: http://twitter.com/askseesmic/status/6807832029
and I’m apparently not the only one: http://twitter.com/BeyondHostile/status/6813476081
Update2:
Apparently AWeber is to blame here. Fortunately for me, I can block <myemail>+seesmic@gmail.com and be spam free once again, then sign up for Seesmic’s newsletter again, but for many people that’s not an option.
Sucks that Seesmic gets put in a bad light for AWeber’s failure.
