• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I feel like that might be bad phrasing on the part of the article. They mainly aggregate public records, like legal document style public records, and they also scrapped data from not-(public record) data, which isn’t the same as (not-public) record data.

    I feel like I would want more details to be sure though, but scrapping usually refers to “generally available” data.

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      3 months ago

      That all depends. If they’re pulling that private data for use in questionnaires, the terms may not allow them to save it, but they scrape it from the form.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, it definitely might still be a bad data source,and it’s shady either way, just pointing out that “not public data” has a few meanings, and not all of them are synonymous with “private data”.