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Gmail to bring a new subscription management feature: What is it and how it works- Details
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Gmail to bring a new subscription management feature: What is it and how it works- Details

[ad_1] Are you struggling to organize your emails with what's important and what's not? Worry no more because Google is working on a new Gmail feature which will declutter your email space. In most cases, our email is filled with spam emails or newsletters. However, deleting or unsubscribing emails one by one is not an easy task and it takes a huge amount of time. Therefore, Gmail will give full control to users over what they want to see in their inbox as a top priority. Google is developing the “Manage Subscriptions” feature which will enable users to organize their emails. Know more about the upcoming feature. Gmail manage subscriptions featureAccording to a PiunikaWeb report, A new version of Gmail was spotted with a new manage subscriptions feature. This feature is expected to come...
Australia fines Uber for breaching anti-spam laws
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Australia fines Uber for breaching anti-spam laws

[ad_1] Australia's communications watchdog fined Uber on Thursday for sending more than two million emails to customers in breach of anti-spam laws.The barrage of emails, advertising an alcohol home delivery service, was sent on a single day in January, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said. The messages did not offer customers an option to unsubscribe, and more than 500,000 of them were sent to people who had asked not to receive marketing emails. The rideshare and food delivery firm was fined Aus$412,500 (US$260,000).We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Australian law says businesses cannot send marketing emails without a customer's permission.The emails must also contain an option to unsubscribe.ACMA chair Nerida O'Loughlin said Uber's actions were an "avoida...
Can sending fewer emails or emptying your inbox really help fight climate change?
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Can sending fewer emails or emptying your inbox really help fight climate change?

[ad_1] Can sending fewer emails or emptying your inbox really help fight climate change? The massive carbon footprint left behind by emails has been widely discussed by the media, but most of the time these discussions are exaggerated. According to Agnes Pannier-Runacher, the French minister of energy transition, reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them would reduce the individual carbon footprint. News stories have voiced these ideas as well. In a recently published paper, we found that some iconic digital activities, such as sending email, contribute marginally to the annual carbon footprint of information and communication technology users. As researchers working on the environmental impacts of our actions, we believe it is important to dispel this myth,...