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BbzzbB on April 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

While I don't condemn such snitching, I'm not sure how the responsibility doesn't fall on the social media user for publicly advertising their search or "professionally friending" prospective employers. Neither action is necessary.

jakelazaroff on April 19, 2022 [–]

Is it so difficult to imagine that we might write laws to prevent corporations from vacuuming up our data and selling it to be used against us?

Again, I am pro-scraping. I see the benefits. But I don’t think this is a situation in which we have to accept all or nothing.

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