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If the info was scraped from public Github pages then I think it's legal for Gitpay to use it, assuming they aren't violating the Github TOS. That doesn't mean
by jlarocco 10y ago
If the info was scraped from public Github pages then I think it's legal for Gitpay to use it, assuming they aren't violating the Github TOS.
That doesn't mean it's not a shitty thing to do, and I really think it should be a violation of the Github TOS to republish the information without the user's explicit consent.
This has come up a number of times, and I'm really surprised Github hasn't addressed it already. I don't care if people read my info on Github (that's why I made it public), but it's really sleazy to co-opt that information to automatically create accounts on other services for people.
- hnysacct 10y agoExactly. You don't have control over other services spawning up accounts for you. Which is just an annoyance if they have a way for you to take the information down (most do) but when they don't... that's a problem.