Timeline for Legality of online publishing of public records containing home addresses of large #'s of people?
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| May 14, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | Bakuriu | @J.Taylor Note that even if the service "you" provide is free (i.e. users don't pay directly for it), if the page contains ads it may still count as commercial use. | |
| May 12, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | J. Taylor | @Bakuriu Yes - part of the data was downloaded after signing a disclaimer that said that it would only be used for non-commercial use. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 14:17 | answer | added | Eric | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 7:34 | vote | accept | J. Taylor | ||
| May 11, 2018 at 4:14 | comment | added | mathreadler | @AzorAhai lol the first I thought about too. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:31 | answer | added | CrossRoads | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 16:59 | comment | added | Bakuriu | When you download said documents do you have to accept any license? They could be "freely available for download", but only after you agreed to the license which might disallow doing something like this... | |
| May 10, 2018 at 16:52 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | Have you ever heard of a phone book? | |
| May 10, 2018 at 16:17 | comment | added | AJFaraday | It may or may not be illegal, but it is highly unethical. The information could be used by spammers, stalkers, extortionists. It could be used to intimidate someone out of their home, or as part of a campaign to gather blackmail material. It could just be a great way for someone to send out personalised spam mail, possibly targeting vulnerable people in the process. I'm not answering, because I don't know the legalities. But please, PLEASE, don't do this. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 12:19 | answer | added | joecro | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 8:52 | answer | added | SGR | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 7:54 | history | edited | J. Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
making that clearer :)
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| May 10, 2018 at 7:52 | comment | added | J. Taylor | The question clearly stated that this is being asked in the context of a non-commercial site, and that this is all information that is already available for download online. Actually, I'm fairly certain that the documents in question are not legal to use for commercial purposes. But I'm not interested in the question of commercial use anyway. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 7:47 | comment | added | o.m. | Not your question, but I'm wondering why somebody would want to publish the unredacted data. Considering the identity theft concerns, that might become a problem for lots and lots of people, and do you really want to inconvenience (and anger) a six-figure number of people? If you are thinking about a new business model here, talk to a specialized lawyer. If it is research or something like that, go with anonymized data and talk with the university ethics people. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 4:09 | comment | added | ohwilleke | The "variety of other data" might be relevant. Many such databases exist marketed to and often only available to private investigators on a paid subscription basis. Suits would be limited to defamatory false information for the most part (e.g. listing a prison as the address of someone who has never served time). | |
| May 10, 2018 at 2:41 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 2:40 | answer | added | bdb484 | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 2:16 | history | edited | J. Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited title
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| May 10, 2018 at 1:34 | history | asked | J. Taylor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |