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by sologoub 3453 days ago
Data mining :(

The reverse append used to be the favorite of the direct mail industry that was the most sophisticated with modeling before advent of the online ecosystem.

You can infer a lot about the person from their profile if it's public and also can try to match back to existing customer records if it's private.

EDIT: "reverse append" is the act of appending data to a phone call record based on the phone number.