Don't forget to cancel your un-used subscriptions: save your money and your privacy!

Recent research shows that companies are making a lot of money on people who have forgotten about recurring subscriptions -- don't be one of them!

This Insider article caught my eye the other day — it summarizes this research, which looked at credit card records to quantify the amount of “inattentive customers” who would otherwise cancel if they realized they were paying. The researchers saw that when the credit card expired and companies sent an email asking for the payment to be updated, about 8…