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Does not make it legal. Even if the original provider got consent from the user, it doesn't mean you have the right to copy the database (and that you shouldn't
by tonfa 15y ago
Does not make it legal. Even if the original provider got consent from the user, it doesn't mean you have the right to copy the database (and that you shouldn't declare the data collection to the relevant privacy agencies).
- jrockway 15y agoSo operating any web index in Europe is illegal?
- tonfa 15y agoA web index is not the same thing as a database about people. The original blog post explicitly says he built such database, he didn't just mirrored Google's data. It's not illegal if you get the necessary permissions from the privacy agencies (which will ask things like: how is the data stored, do you do join with other databases, can a user ask to have its information removed, etc.). (IANAL I just happen to have dealt with that kind of things when building a lobbyist database out of public documents for an advocacy group) Edit: removed part about database rights, lets not complicate the subject.
- roel_v 15y agoIt's an interesting question actually; I guess at some point, if there is sufficiently advanced AI (I should use the word 'information retrieval' to not instigate a tangential discussion on if AI is possible) in a search engine to identify and link personal information, does a search index constitute a 'database' per Directive 95/46/EC? The author of the original article could write a paper on it :)