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The Email They Shouldn't Have Read (it-notes.dragas.net)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 21 points 1 day ago

it looked as if they (porovider) might have been reading the emails.

The IT manager exploded and confronted them. The response was chilling:

"I’m not saying we do - but we could. It’s in the contract. You should read the fine print, especially the unilateral amendment from two years ago.".

"Unilateral agreement" here means that they send you a message saying "We've updated our TOS" and if you don't reply otherwise, you agreed.

Horror story.

BTW:

All of this happened before the GDPR era, when certain practices could still slip through.