paidContent:UK: FT.com to profile IP numbers to find new subscribers

The Financial Times’ website has hired profiling firm Trovus to mine the site’s traffic logs in the hope of generating new paying subscribers by targetting companies whose staff regularly visit free stories.

Trovus will track the IP addresses of these readers to find out where they work, reports paidContent:UK.

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