Answer by Trish for Is there some kind of law that even if data is legally...
gdpreuropean-unionEven if you gather from public sources, you need to comply with the GDPR to process Personal Identifiable Data. That means you need a strictly legal basis to even be allowed to gather...
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united-statesThere is no such law in the United States. It is legal to collect large amounts of raw data from public sources and share it.Usually, even information protected by a non-disclosure...
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There are tools like OSINT or just plain old web-scraping which could allow you to harvest a lot of data. Let’s say you never harvest data in an illegal way, so technically all the data you compile is...
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The goal of "sharing information" may possibly be illegal itself, depending on what you are sharing and why, regardless of where the information came from.As an example, a student named Jack Sweeney is...
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It's perfectly possible to collate a set of public data that a government agency might feel it necessary to apply a restrictive security classification to. At that point you're in Official Secrets...
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Note that the answers assume you are collecting the data from an unrestricted source. In the US, a fact can not be copyrighted but a collection of facts can be, so a specific database may be...
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