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[-] phx@lemmy.ca 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The funny (in an "wtf" not "haha" sense) thing is, individuals such as security researchers have been charged under digital trespassing laws for stuff like accessing publicly available ststems and changing a number in the URL in order to get access to data that normally wouldn't, even after doing responsible disclosure.

Meanwhile, companies completely ignore the standard mentions to say "you are not allowed to scape this data" and then use OUR content/data to build up THEIR datasets, including AI etc.

That's not a "violation of a social contract" in my book, that's violating the terms of service for the site and essentially infringement on copyright etc.

No consequences for them though. Shit is fucked.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Remember Aaron Swartz

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Corporations are people except when it comes to liability. Compare the consequences of stealing several thousand dollars from someone by fraud vs. stealing several thousand dollars from someone by fraud as an LLC.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Just thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Perhaps some web extensions already do this and phone home about it.

[-] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

While there are some extensions that do this, last I saw Google didn't use Chrome for populating Search:

https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chrome-to-discover-new-urls-for-crawling/

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