Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR

Unroll.me, a company that has, for years, used the premise of ‘free’ but not very useful ’email management’ services to gain access to people’s email inboxes in order to data-mine the contents for competitive intelligence — and controversially flog the gleaned commercial insights to the likes of Uber — is to stop serving users in Europe ahead of a new data protection enforcement regime incoming under GDPR, which applies from May 25.

Source: Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR | TechCrunch