Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by riffraff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:11AM (#24716373)

if you do that you will likely wipe out a lot of non-person-name data too, just think of common words used as last names, like "Brown"[0].

It seems to me if you have PII in text data you should treat the whole thing as PII.

[0] although the dataset doesn't actually contain "Brown" as a valid last or first name, go figure.

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Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by jfk13 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:39AM (#24718143)

Yeah, calling it "exhaustive" is plainly ridiculous. (It does have "Black" and "Green", if you want alternative examples, though "White" is also missing...) Seems like just scraping author names from a few bibliographic databases could've filled in some of the more obvious holes.

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