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Thanks a lot for sharing these links. I will follow your advice and talk to the university's legal folks about this.

Thanks. Do you have any set guidelines for students when they should not scrape a website?

Although I agree with your point about policitcs, in case of ethics, I don't take an extreme stance. I certainly discuss the ethical issues surrpounding certain practices but I refrain from preac…

I think I didn't frame my statement well. Although I don't make absolute claims about ethics, I tell the students that some practices are considered unethical by some people because of XYZ r…

Thanks. I did not know about CommonCrawl

Thanks. This is the case the EFF article I linked in the original post also refers to.

I agree. This is exactly why I made that distinction.

Thanks. I was unaware about Sandvig v. Sessions

Thanks for pointing out the ToS. Does the ToS apply even when someone is not logged in to an account?

This is a great podcast. I started listening to it recently but finished around 75% of the episodes mostly in the gym! Recommended it to some of my colleagues who are hooked on it as well.

I read the orginal Buzzfeed story ( https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/tech-titans-wom... ) linked in this article and to me it looks like a non-issue. Of course oth…

The line about saving $1.7 million caught me off guard! Btw, the woman's blog "Merry for Money" that's linked at the end of the article has a few extreme methods such as how to mak…

What a click-bait headline. The title suggests Apple was involved in a large effort to silence the negative coverage. The article lists only one instance where they asked the website to pull down the …

I also recommend this book. One of my PhD students is using it to learn Bayseian models on her own.

I met an Uber driver who was doing his PhD in CS and specifically in machine learning!

The headline here "Apple sells iTunes' purchase histories to highest bidders" makes it sound like it's a fact. According to the article, these are the allegations in a lawsuit.

Not completely unrelated: "Reflections of a Textbook Author" by Greg Mankiw This is a PDF https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/reflections_o... …