I read the article about scrapers.
WSJ.com - 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web
http://on.wsj.com/br9fVK
Scrapers are people who work to find information of people on the internet for clients. One specific instance of scraping that happened recently was a case where the site PatientsLikeMe had a break in. A scraper company, Nielsen co., was recording information of users in private chat areas on the site, and then transfered the data to their database. The information about users from PatientsLikeMe would then be given to certain medical companies, companies that uses specific information to create drugs for possible customers. This, and other scraper activity, fuels an outrage towards scraping. People dislike the fact that their information is being accessed for advertisers and such. The battle between websites and scrapers continue, some sites being heavily 'under siege' by scrapers. Scrapers on the internet is now more common in America, and with each scrapper comes the issue of whether or not scraping certain pieces of information is legal...
The article that I found was this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393173432219064.html
It is about a test by a journalist on popular sites and the amount of cookies used by the sites to access information. A total of 50 major sites are tested...
This article is relevant to the Scraper article because it discusses about how companies/sites that access information, mainly unknown to most users.
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