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Is it legal to scrape a website and create my own database?
I'm working on a website that needs a database which is available publically on another site (let's just says it is IMDB). It'd be great if I could create my database by scraping IMDB. It'll be a one-...
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Is one liable if illegal material is found on one's own server?
This question was prompted by a news article I read earlier today, in which a person described the dilemma they faced on discovering illegal material had been stored by an unidentified third party on ...
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It is legal to save and index a copy of any leaked database?
I'm wondering if it is legal to use a copy of a leaked database like the leaked Adobe database containing email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints.
I can imagine it won't be legal to ...
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Does any host provider currently comply with GDPR?
According to Rec.81; Art.28(1)-(3) of the GDPR regulation,
"The carrying-out of processing by a processor should be governed by a contract or other legal act under Union or Member State law, binding ...
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For HIPAA, Does US Patient Data Have To Stay On US Servers?
For an application that stores US patient data, does HIPAA require that US data stays on US servers?
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Is scraping a database by an undocumented API endpoint illegal?
Simple question: I want to get specific data, but the API does not have the endpoint I want, so what I want to do is scrape the database for the resources and then use my own filtering to retrieve and ...
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Which, if any, data protection laws apply?
I am the DBA (Database Administrator) of an online group. We store a few bits of personal data for our members. Name, Age, Email. Nothing huge. The rest of the data is specific to our group.
I don't ...
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Is Encrypted Intellectual Property still considered Intellectual Property?
TL;DR I posted a question yesterday; the answer to which gave me a new question:
Is Encrypted Intellectual Property still considered Intellectual Property in most (or, relevant) cases?
Here's some ...
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