Contact scraping

In online advertising, contact scraping is the practice of obtaining access to a customer's e-mail account in order to retrieve contact information that is then used for marketing purposes. The New York Times refers to the practices of Tagged, MyLife and desktopdating.net as "contact scraping".

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Contact scraping

In online advertising, contact scraping is the practice of obtaining access to a customer's e-mail account in order to retrieve contact information that is then used for marketing purposes. The New York Times refers to the practices of Tagged, MyLife and desktopdating.net as "contact scraping".

Source: Wikipedia "Contact scraping" · CC BY-SA 4.0

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