Questions tagged [internet]
For questions about the internet. Please ensure a tag for the jurisdiction is also included. This tag should not be used when the question does not crucially hinge on internet usage or involvement.
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How to get user data from Foursquare/Swarm under GDPR?
Is there a way to download all my contributed check-in and reviews data from Foursquare/Swarm?
The foursquare.com doesn't seem to have a way to log in with the old foursquare/swarm credentials.
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Does GDPR require consent to collect non-personal information?
If a website never assigns a user a unique identifier, does the website need to get explicit consent from the user before collecting non-personal information?
Examples of non-personal information that ...
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What decentralized services does the Online Safety Bill impose duties upon?
On Tuesday 19 September the Online Safety Bill passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law. This is expected to happen imminently.
From wikipedia this law applies to:
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Does an official US Government website (e.g. house.gov) prominently posting information known to be false for several weeks violate any US laws?
At about 00:55 in CNN's McCarthy still listed as speaker on House website. Correspondent has theory why in response to the US Government website house.gov still listing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of ...
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What rules determine jurisdiction on the internet?
It is in the news that Clearview AI has won an appeal against the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The reasons for judgment are here: Clearview AI Inc v The Information Commissioner [2023] ...
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Is ad blocking assistive technology?
Say I run a website. I put ads on my website to make money. I program the web site to refuse service to people who do not actually display the ads, since they make me no money.
Then I have a user come ...
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Is a website of embedded youtube videos (including screenshots and written descriptions) copyright infringement? [duplicate]
I'm thinking to create a website to curate a list of top youtube recipe videos...
I would embed the youtube video itself (properly according to youtube's own guidelines).
I would list out the ...
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Can I set a fee for using my web site, and later collect it?
If I set terms of service for my web site, visitors to my web site agree to them when they use my web site (beyond, presumably, the usage technically required to obtain the text of the terms).
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Is it legal for a 19 year old or a 20-21 year old to view internet porn?
I'm curious to know is it legal for a 19 year old or a 20-21 year old to view internet porn, is it legal or otherwise?
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Is scraping an iCal link legal?
TL;DR: my university says my app is illegal
Since our university doesn't have a mobile app to check our schedules, I created one that does the following:
Opens an embedded web browser (in app) and ...
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Legal Implications of Building a Webshop for Renting Accounts
I'm considering developing a webshop platform where users can rent credentials to various website account like Udemy from each other, and I want to include a user rating system to build trust within ...
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Is webscraping legal if the website clearly doesn't want to be scraped (for example having a captcha or cloudflare)?
If a website has cloudflare protection or some sort of anti-robot protection, then it's pretty obvious that the website does not want to be scraped. However, the thing with programming is that there ...
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Does Google routinely form contracts by accessing web sites with their crawler?
Many web sites contain terms of service, where the web site puts a link to "Terms" or similar, and anyone who accesses the web site forms a contract with the web site operator under those ...
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What are the legalities of web scraping in Pakistan?
I couldn't really find much useful info about it online. One thing that seems to be somewhat useful is this reddit post but it doesn't contain any sources.
Is web scraping legal in Pakistan? If yes, ...
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Are Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines allowed to copy website text because of the copyright fair use exception? [duplicate]
These sites certainly send bots out that copy the entirety of websites by stepping through links and then store the entirety of websites in databases.
Then they show any part of a quote from a website ...
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