Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
by xnyan on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:41AM
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There’s a very effective way out, don’t your data on the public web.
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Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
by kerkeslager on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:50AM
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[decided to delete because I misunderstood the context]
Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
by ppseafield on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:04AM
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Let's not conflate a) a person's personal data, and b) a business's dataset. The GP and the article are clearly referring to the latter. Preventing web scraping won't protect users from businesses collecting their data.