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Needing 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
by dave2000 10y ago
Needing 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.