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		hrimfaxi 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial rec... Why would scraping have an unlawful connotation? I thought US courts have ruled scraping to be allowed.

verdverm 19 days ago [–]

"scraping" is being used in two ways

1. Scraping a website, by anyone, allowed by courts if it is publicly accessible

2. "Scraping" of data, by the government, from various sources into a centralized database in partnership with Palantir. It's a worse version of the "Patriot" Act

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