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Re:Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how... by account42 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:38AM (#41119581)
That doesn't seem remotely compatible with modern privacy laws like the GDPR. And it certainly ads even more false negatives of people locked out because they didn't have their email leaked long enough ago.
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Re:Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how... by londons_explore on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:44PM (#41124315)
GDPR has a massive carve-out for fraud prevention...
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Re:Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how... by account42 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:33AM (#41126939)
Which doesn't include collecting information about your email and then handing it off to random third parties just because they want to use it for that.
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