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According to BusinessInsider, apps like Edison, Cleanfox, and Slice are taking your email information and selling it for profit.

Questions:

  1. What type of information are the apps targeting?
  2. What do the third-party companies that buy the data use it for?
  3. Commercial emails in inboxes are scanned for what type of data?

Source:

Holmes, A. (2020). These email apps are scraping information from your inbox and selling the data for a profit. BusinessInsider.com, Feb. 10 (Retrievable online at https://www.businessinsider.com/email-apps-scraping-selling-data-edison-slice-cleanfox-2020-2)