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Email Startup Data Mining

This Bumbling New Start-Up Helps Conservative Websites Store User Names, Postal Addresses of Anonymous Readers

 
 

Art for Jezebel

“Recently, Jezebel received a curious email from someone who identified themselves as a co-founder of GetEmails.com, “an all new audience growth tool for publishers.” The technology, we were told, could identify anonymous visitors to a website by providing publications like us with the names, email address, and, incredibly, home addresses of over a third of the people who were reading our stuff on any given day.”