1/ Hello, Digital Ethicists and Archivists. I need your help. Let's say I have a dataset scraped from a popular crowd funding platform. Many researchers have asked me to share said dataset. I want to do so. But...
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2/ Question 1: Am I in legal jeopardy by doing so? I abided by robots.txt, but it clearly violates the TOS. But, I'm not familiar with many cases of non-profit scrapes for academic purposes being penalized.
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3/ Question 2: What's the standard for protecting identities in free-form text? People have a right to anonymity and "forgetting". Do I grep all possible names or use a language tagger to remove proper nouns that look like names?
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4/ Or, Question 3: Do you think such a dataset is unethical to release, period?
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