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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by Gunax on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:18AM (#35949610)
I think we need a term for 'taking public information and deriving nondisclosed information from it'. It isn't really spying, but it's more than just access.

It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, but I think a lot of the debate here is just people arguing the semantics of what's going on.

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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by adfgionionio on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:43AM (#35950088)
> I think we need a term for 'taking public information and deriving nondisclosed information from it'. It isn't really spying, but it's more than just access.

Sure, but I don't think that was done here. People were organizing protests by Twit. All the relevant information was made public because the protesters wanted people to show up.

I can imagine similar scenarios that would be a problem, but this seems about as benign as I can imagine.

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