I guess that's the issue. We need laws to control what companies can do with personal information, even if it happens to be publicly available. I don't think sc

I guess that's the issue. We need laws to control what companies can do with personal information, even if it happens to be publicly available. I don't think scraping itself is really the issue. If you used mechanical turk to hire a bunch of people to go look and user profiles and write down information about them, you'd have the same problem.