"When Is Scraping Legitimate? Ethical, Legal, Administrative, and Technical Considerations" by @m-dot-brown.bsky.social, @orangechair.org, Gabe Maldoff, @solmg.bsky.social, @zevesanderson.com & @michaelzimmer.bsky.social presents a framework for web scraping in social science research. 5/6

Happy #WorldInternetDay from Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador, first Digital Minister, and Mozilla Foundation's newest, Senior Advisor, @audreyt.org 🥳 More to come from Audrey 🔜

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More than 200 sites including #Reddit, #Etsy and @duolingoverde.bsky.social are being used as tools for surveillance👀 Users deserve transparency and data protections. Sign our petition and tell these companies to stop feeding surveillance tech mzl.la/4j2er2r

Excited to share a pre-print about web scraping for research! We're happy to receive feedback on how we frame this issue and try to build some paths forward for researchers. w/ @orangechair.org, Gabe Maldoff, @solmg.bsky.social, Zeve Sanderson, & @michaelzimmer.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2410.23432

Post-app net? Deutsche Telekom showing off phone with AI agent to do everything. Found this via Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist fretting anew about the future of journalism. Yes, one should fret about the fate of content. But if journalism is seen instead as a service... www.zdnet.com/article/a-sm...

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