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Re:Having 170 competitors in not an obstacle on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:06PM (#25093616)
Reminds me of DHH from Startup School 08. The idea of an Mom & Pop store on the internet:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck with Pingr :)

Re:Ask HN: How are products that sell email info like SalesIntel,ZoomI... on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:53AM (#24827515)
Thank you for this detailed explanation!

I also came across this which was fascinating: ZoomInfo offers a free product that you have to connect with your email. Once you do, they scrape EVERY single contact in your email to enrich their database.

So, technically, it is YOU who has signed over your entire contact list data to ZoomInfo and agreed to their Terms and Conditions which states that they can now sell YOUR DATA (your email and everyone else's in your contact list)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zqbw/zoominfo-privacy-laws

Ask HN: How are products that sell email info like SalesIntel,ZoomInfo legal?

Posted by takezo on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

GDPR and CCPA protect personal information from being sold or abused yet sales "intelligence" tools rake in millions. These companies don't just sell email but also phone numbers and sometimes address for sales prospecting. As someone who works in sales, I would hate it if these tools went away.But GDPR and CCPA ban this practice as far as I know. So, how are these tools still legal ?I am not...

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