I did this before. I ran a cron job once a day that counted the number of active entries in a particular file. It was neat to see the number bump up after an acquisition or drop after a layoff. It was neat to see the overall growth of the company I worked for.

I eventually decided that someone _might_ decide that, although freely available, in aggregate, this material could be _sensitive_. I stopped doing it. I deleted years of interesting data...