CEO of Spoke.com Replies

Philippe Cases, CEO of Spoke.com commented on your post "Wow! Serious Invasion of Privacy":

Hi Paul, my name is Philippe Cases and I am the CEO of Spoke. Spoke is a contact management on steroids so what we do is the following:

1) Upload all your contacts safely in our cloud services including contacts that you have in your email system and not in your address book. By doing this, you will end up with a “Spokebook” of anywhere between 500 to thousands of people of which typically 20% are in your address book and altogether 30% are current;

2) Because you may not remember the person, in the cloud, we are providing you a profile of the person and the context of which you exchanged information (hence the subject line and first 256 characters of your email message) in order to remind of how you connected with the person;

3) One last thing we do is keeping track with the person so that if the person changes job, you are alerted.

Our privacy policy is built to enable to do what I am describing above in term of product and nothing else.

We are serious about our privacy policy to the point that we have written one and that we are being overseen by Truste. Changing our privacy policy would require us alerting our user base and let them that this is happening. The users would then have to decide what to do, either leave the site altogether with their data or stay if they feel comfortable with the privacy changes.

I hope this helps