from the Readme : <quote> "... We have donated the complete Profile Engine database to the Internet Archive with the current exclusion of the following sensiti

from the Readme : <quote> "... We have donated the complete Profile Engine database to the Internet Archive with the current exclusion of the following sensitive fields: Email address Facebook user ID number Facebook username Surname Profile Engine login password hash ... " </quote> and this : <quote> "... What if this data is abused? This data has already been publicly available, first from Facebook and then on many search engines (including Profile Engine) for up to 10 years, with the consent of the person who entered their information on Facebook. Anyone who wanted to misuse this information has probably already had access to it and already saved what they want ... " </quote> so the main reason is that he probably realized that there is no way to make money with this as anybody who wanted to (mis)use the data already had their own copy of it.