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Publicly available data was made public! Everybody panic!
by dave2000 10y ago
Publicly available data was made public! Everybody panic!
- wuliwong 10y agopublicly available to OkCupid users That isn't really "publicly available". You need to sign into an account with a password to view it. And before the account was created, the creator had to agree to OKCupid's terms of service agreement.
- dave2000 10y agoNeeding an account to access it doesn't preclude it from being publicly available. And adding some terms that nobody with malicious intent would care about to the sign up process doesn't protect them from public view either. If someone posted your tax, pay, etc details on a torrent site you needed to sign up to before anyone could access them wouldn't you say they were publicly available?
- wuliwong 10y agoI would say they made it available to the users of that torrent site. There is a difference between "publicly available to OKCupid users" and simply "publicly available." When you lose the "to OKCupid users" you change the definition of public.
- dave2000 10y agoSure, but "they made data which was freely available to members of a website freely available to visitors to a different site" is not a headline which is going to surprise or upset many people.