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Substack Privacy Policy Update Email Blunder

A Simple Human Error Exposes Email Addresses Substack, a subscription newsletter service sent an email to its users telling of them of a change of terms, and an updated privacy policy. Which is fine, that’s required practice. But they pasted about 500 emails into the cc field, instead of the bcc field. That meant that everyone on the email saw all of the other recipients’ email addresses. In an email about a privacy policy - whoops.

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