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Address harvesting

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-000353

The automated collection of electronic mail addresses from websites or online services without the owner's consent. This practice is often used by spammers to build mailing lists for unsolicited commercial email. Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting or restricting address harvesting, such as the CAN-SPAM Act in the United States.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-000353
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-000353",
  "term": "Address harvesting",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "The automated collection of electronic mail addresses from websites or online services without the owner's consent. This practice is often used by spammers to build mailing lists for unsolicited commercial email. Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting or restricting address harvesting, such as the CAN-SPAM Act in the United States.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/address-harvesting/"
}

Record 117 of 5,441 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.