I don't see how it's worse than the ubiquitous data brokers built into our society like the private credit bureaus that charge you to access your own data which has a de facto green light from us and our government.

It would be inconsistent to punish this little app severely when we don't care about much more egregious violations. It's tragic that we're only able to care about small things that fit into our tiny laser beam of public outrage.