(Solved Homework): (300-600 words ) Briefly summarizes the article Discusses the relevant legal issues…

• Unroll.me does a totally unethical practice, it being part of the expansive and unregulated world of selling personal data that is collected by online consumer services.Unroll.me has a privacy policy and as it sticks by it and does not sell direct personally identifiable information, like someone’s name, it is considered fair.
• In 2014, the F.T.C. conducted an invetigation and called on Congress to protect consumers against this data theft which is unsolicitated. The F.T.C. report detailed how some of the companies classify consumers in data-driven social and demographic groups for marketing purposes with labels like “financially challenged,” “diabetes interest” and “smoker in the household.” which seem generic but is still a violation of privacy.
• Service access to his or her email account is sought by Unroll.me, then it serves up a list of all the subscriptions they are a part of, with the option to quickly opt out of the ones they no longer want to receive, which is not allowed with permission, but they keep doing them and there is no one taking direct action as these are included in the privacy terms.
• Its privacy policy, which says that “we may collect, use, transfer, sell and disclose nonpersonal information for any purpose” and that the data can be used “to build anonymous market research products and services.”
• Under the disguise of being customer friendly and helping their customers to get rid of ‘email junk,’ unroll.me allows the profiling and targeting of their unwitting customers by third parties.”

Question: Is it ethical for companies to create services that are usefull and in the aid of helping scan all the private data and sell them to earn money by violating privacy?

If terms are mentioned in Privacy policy does that mean they can violate the right to privacy.

(Source: NYTimes)