# In case you weren't sufficiently paranoid

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**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [October 12, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/in-case-you-werent-sufficiently-paranoid/42562 "2010-10-12T15:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![tacitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tacitus](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/tacitus)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/in-case-you-werent-sufficiently-paranoid/42562/1 "2010-10-12T15:34:33Z")

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‘Scrapers’ Dig Deep for Data on the Web - [WSJ.com](http://WSJ.com) ([http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544381288117888.html?mod=WSJ\_hpp\_MIDDLETopStories](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703358504575544381288117888.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories))

“The market for personal data about Internet users is booming, and in the vanguard is the practice of\*\* “scraping.”\*\*\* Firms offer to harvest online conversations and collect personal details from social-networking sites, résumé sites and online forums where people might discuss their lives. \*  
The emerging business of web scraping provides some of the raw material for a rapidly expanding data economy. Marketers spent $7.8 billion on online and offline data in 2009, according to the New York management consulting firm Winterberry Group LLC. Spending on data from online sources is set to more than double, to $840 million in 2012 from…”

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**Author:** ![MVKBUGATTI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MVKBUGATTI](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MVKBUGATTI)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/in-case-you-werent-sufficiently-paranoid/42562/2 "2010-10-12T18:30:21Z")

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> [@tacitus](#):
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> “The market for personal data about Internet users is booming, and in the **vanguard** is the practice of\*\* “scraping.”\*\*\* Firms offer to harvest online conversations and collect personal details from social-networking sites, résumé sites and online forums where people might discuss their lives. \*  
> The emerging business of web scraping provides some of the raw material for a rapidly expanding data economy. Marketers spent $7.8 billion on online and offline data in 2009, according to the New York management consulting firm Winterberry Group LLC. Spending on data from online sources is set to more than double, to $840 million in 2012 from…”

\*\*Word Of The Day: \*\ ***vanguard**

- **leading position or people**

the leading position of a movement, field, or cultural trend, or the people who are foremost in a movement, field, or cultural trend.