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Accounts share data with partners by default

Account settings quietly share user details with marketing partners or contacts, and users find out only later.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 17 April 2015 · last reported 31 May 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

People discover that their email address, blog address or contact-based details were shared with third parties after they never knowingly agreed.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.