Fine print: "Check Point will not collect, store, or use your email address for any other purpose."

It is just a text. How do you know ?

What is the downside of someone having your email address, especially with no other context.

If they have other data on your email address, they don't need your email address to do anything with it. If they don't have other data, then there's no issue.

You're not concerned about people having public access to your twitter handle, why would you be concerned about people having public access to your email address.

A list of emails + IP addresses would be valuable to web surveillance companies that already have trails of data for the IP addresses and emails separately.

Well, they at least know my email address and my interest for android phones. Am I only one thinking that It is so easy to sell the whole list to a Chinese manufacturer ?

They also probably have the http://news.ycombinator.com referrer, among other things.

Twitter handle is public. Email addy can be private.

Unless you use your email for ONLY signing up for accounts online, the entire purpose of email addresses is for other people to have them.

Hey Eren,

It's not like that email addresses are that hard to find when they are listed on websites publically...

  ereny*gdir*n[@AT]gm*il

Indeed. Literally all you are providing to the site is an email address. I could check my coworkers' email addresses. They have a list, I'm checking to see if something is on the list.

Any site that requires you to provide an email address and password (or any other "verifiable info") to check is probably a scam.

It requires manual interaction and obviously not scalable.

It's pretty easy to automate an email harvester.

Then again just <firstname><lastname>@(gmail|yahoo|hotmail).com works for a lot of people.

I'm convinced adding my middle initial to my email has been the most effective spam prevention technique I've implemented.