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I remain perpetually amazed how often the same people are one moment calling for “open APIs” and “access to data for research” and the next are “what do you mean you let just anybody scrape the locati

2024-12-05 09:55:37+00:00

This guy scrapes the NYC city bike locations once per minute and has used the data to possibly track a murder suspect; that’s exciting enough but some folk on Bluesky are now panicking about “surveillance”

Tell us: which do you want? Open Data or Privacy?
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