SAN FRANCISCO — UnrollMe Inc., an email management service that allows consumers to easily unsubscribe from mailing lists, has been hit with a privacy lawsuit claiming that it fails to adequately disclose how its parent company mines user accounts for valuable bits of data.

Lawyers at Edelson PC sued UnrollMe and parent company Slice Technologies Inc. on Wednesday claiming that its data-mining practices violate the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Stored Communications Act—two federal privacy laws that carry stiff statutory damages provisions.

“Defendants did not adequately disclose to consumers the true purpose for why they seek access to UnrollMe users' emails for an important and obvious reason: few (if any) consumers would knowingly hand over complete access to their private emails to a company that would invasively scour through them and then sell the data they gather about you to whoever would pay the most,” states the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.