“Scraping can sound like intrusive hacking—because it is. It disregards contextual integrity and asserts a right to inhale entire data sets and process them.”
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David Golumbia, American author, researcher, and Virginia Commonwealth University Associate Professor, making the case that data scraping, commonly used by researchers and journalists, is an underacknowledged privacy concern. “Scrapers’ indifference to consent means their data and results are conceptually unreliable,” Golumbia writes.
