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On the ethics of web scraping

March 8, 2015March 8, 2015 Roberto 11 Comments

  Scraping data from websites is a valuable skill for a journalist, and often (as was my case), the first incentive to learn to code. But once you acquire the power to harvest mass amount of data in a short time, ethical questions invariably pop up: Can I take this data? Can I republish this […]

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