http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/database-right/scraping-data-mining-and-data-harvesting/ The web law blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/database-right/scraping-data-mining-and-data-harvesting/#comment-70683 Dozza Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:22:33 +0000 http://www.website-law.co.uk/blog/database-right/scraping-data-mining-and-data-harvesting/#comment-70683 Is the 'manual' harvesting of email addresses visible on websites with the intention of later contacting them via a targetted email campaign a legally allowed practice in the UK? If it is not, how would a court distinguish between someone obtaining an email address from a company website to contact a company employee with a general enquiry and doing this on a large scale to hundreds of contacts? Is the ‘manual’ harvesting of email addresses visible on websites with the intention of later contacting them via a targetted email campaign a legally allowed practice in the UK? If it is not, how would a court distinguish between someone obtaining an email address from a company website to contact a company employee with a general enquiry and doing this on a large scale to hundreds of contacts?

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