You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
Sumit Suman recently visited a site, did not sign up for anything, did not connect via social media, but got a personal email from the site the next day.I’ve learned that there is a “website intelligence” network that tracks form submissions across their customer network. So, if a visitors fills out a form on Site A with their name and email, Site B knows their name and email too as soon as they land on the site.It all started 2 weeks ago when I got a promotional email (anonymized to avoid promotion) offering toI get B2B marketing emails all the time but what caught my eye was the inclusion of a report snapshot for 42Floors.com showing names,
What the influencers are saying
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Martin McKeay
RT @chriseng: Evil - how websites get your name, etc. w/o your permission. Argument for incognito browsing all the time http://t.co/AtDXiR4l
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Mikko Hypponen
This makes me very uncomfortable: http://t.co/ZLQWFX9u How websites get to know your name, company and e-mail address after a single visit.
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BrianHonan
RT @keithbohanna: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, & company. http://t.co/NF678sGB > disturbing even for web users ...
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Chris Eng
Evil -- how websites get your name, company, email w/o your permission. Argument for incognito browsing all the time. http://t.co/JR78eYR4
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F-Secure
RT @mikko: This makes me very uncomfortable: http://t.co/ZLQWFX9u How websites get to know your name, company and e-mail address after a ...
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zedshaw
Good man Darren, now let's get the FTC to shut this shit down: http://t.co/qjuYJSTk Anybody know which SF startup this is? Free market time!
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news.yc Popular
Youre not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company. http://t.co/aZN1JGRQ
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Steve Werby
RT @jaysonstreet You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.: http://t.co/a2H3Zpnq <= Privacy nightmare
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Chae Jong Bin
RT @jaysonstreet: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.: http://t.co/X9SNbhLe
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Joey Tyson
Whoa - 3rd-party service tracks visitors across different websites & may share names/emails with all of them: http://t.co/2x6fdPJj HT @mikko
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Paul Wood
RT @peterkruse: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company, http://t.co/d0uFI2Pu
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Sam Bowne
You're not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company. http://t.co/u1V5vmk9 Ty @mikko
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Bev Robb
RT @GetCocoon: You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company http://t.co/ikRsehsq thanks to @42floors #privacy
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Jayson E. Street
You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.: http://t.co/X9SNbhLe
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Gal Shpantzer
RT @stevewerby: RT @jaysonstreet You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.: http://t.co/a2H3Zpnq <= Privacy nightmare
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