Data Doctors Radio Program
Internet 'Scrapers' & You!
Data mining 'bots' have been roaming around the Internet scraping Web sites to gather your personal information and sell it to the highest bidder for years.
This harvesting of your every move on the Internet allows advertisers to get a pretty good profile of who you are and what you like.
This, in turn, allows them to target ads to you that reflect your current discussions and surfing destinations.
Listen in as the Data Doctors explain how these bots are doing this and what you can do the escape (or at least try to escape) the scrapers!
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Original Air Date: Oct 23, 2010
This Week's Links
- 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web
- Escaping the ‘Scrapers’
- List of Online Data Vendors & opting out
- More data removal resources
- WSJ Digits video story on Scrapers
- The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
- How to Control Your Privacy Online
- You've Been Scraped! Feel Violated?
- Should Facebook charge for privacy?
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Bluejacking: The sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers.
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