Security News > 2020 > November > Micropayments company Coil distributes new privacy policy with email that puts users' addresses in the ‘To:’ field

The Register has read it and can report that while it reveals that Coil seeks permission to share users' details with service providers, partners, and "Related entities".

We cannot find a clause that resembles: "We reserve the right to expose your email address to countless other Coil users in the 'To:' field of an email."

It's super cool that all of us now have each other's email address and know that we all have a Coil account.

The Coil user who tipped us off to the situation told us he was "Tempted to start one" and reported "Everyone's been well behaved. They sent it from a no-reply email address anyway :)". Coil has become aware of the incident and sent an apology email with a subject line "Please forgive us".

Coil offers a service that charges users $5 a month, then shares that sum with publishers and content creators.

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