A billion profiles for sale on the clear net: yours too?

When you post personal information online, you should expect that it will be posted publicly. Indeed, whether this is the case ofsecurity vulnerabilitiesasthe last one that touched Mail for macOSor quite simply very liberal conditions of use, the risks are great.

The most telling example should resonate in the minds of early stage entrepreneurs who spend a large part of their time generating qualified leads to get started. There are tools, such as FullContact, Lusha, PhantomBuster or CRMs which are capable ofscraper and webthanks to robots collecting e-mail addresses and telephone numbers wherever they can be found: on a Linkedin profile, in the legal notices of your site, on the PDF of your press kit, etc.

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Other services, specialized in this very large-scale crawling, specialize indatabase salemuch wider. This is particularly the case for People Data Labs and OxyData. Although these commercial practices are not out of the ordinary, they are, however, subject to more evolving developments.touchy.

Indeed, an Internet user took the time to create a single file accessible online and bringing together the profiles provided by the two companies in question, resulting in more than 4,000 GB of information which mainly concernsprofessionalsoccupying key positions but also their social network links. And after those who discovered this “treasure chest” for a salesman reported it to the FBI, it was deleted. Should we see in this a semblance of jurisprudence?

ChezApple, on the other hand, the relationship with confidentiality seems to be very different from Facebook and others. On the firm's website, you can discoverwhat she puts in place about it.

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By : Keleops AG