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Is selling program / liking bot legal?
Would it be legal to sell a program / bot that log into a website account and like others posts? Is it legal on the assumption that user is responsible for use of that program (getting ban is his ...
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Is releasing this company's documents illegal?
I run a website where I sell materials for students interested in finance, law and consulting. My website contains case studies from actual previous interviews. Recently, one of the firms' HR reached ...
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Does the GDPR mandate that web sites provide access to cookie settings?
Cross referenced this question with SO just to get more technical perspective
In this article it says with respect to:
Google Analytics and GDPR consent to cookies and tracking:
Based on a true ...
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Why aren't foreign VPN companies forced to keep logs?
This link explains the inconsistency with what VPN services consider 'logging'. Certainly, there is no way for us to verify their claims without an extremely rigorous independent audit. But even that ...
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Mailing bot illegal? [Social Experiment]
Hope I am in the right place for this type of question. I am a developer that would like to start up a little project that is kind of a social experiment.
The idea is that I setup a mailing bot with ...
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Is it illegal to aggregate and publish publically available personal information?
Is it against the law to aggregate and publish legally gathered, publically available information such as:
Social media usernames
Real names
Date of Birth
City/Country
Screenshots of posts/comments
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Is our website responsible for users' offline actions?
On our website clients find models for their photo shootings, castings, promotional events, etc.
A client transfers an escrow payment to us and when a model finishes the job we sent the money to the ...
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Legality of scanning a site with SSLLabs SSL Server Test in order to find and report weaknesses
I am wanting to scan a site (which I do not own) to see if they are vulnerable to anything like Heartbleed or the POODLE attack, not because I want to exploit any such vulnerabilities for malicious ...
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Are Captcha solver farms illegal?
Let say that captcha is a picture that prevents automated programs to do a certain task. Now imagine that we have a service in which some people works to solve some captchas. These captchas are sent ...
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