Unwanted newsletters and spam mails are a thorn in the side of many people. However, the handling of these annoying advertising mails is modest. More than the manual deletion of mails and the manual unsubscription of newsletters is hardly possible. Some programs promise automation.
The unsubscribe programs, some of which are even free of charge, should work through detailed scans of the incoming e-mails. At the same time, however, this is the biggest point of criticism: anyone wishing to use such a deregistration program must grant it far-reaching access rights to their mailbox. From a data protection point of view, this is certainly suboptimal.
An online program that has only recently become available promises to be particularly data protection-friendly. Nevertheless, he must be granted access to sender and recipient addresses as well as time stamps of all incoming mails. The programme is called „Leave me Alone“ and is of particular interest to EU users with its special data...
