Are you talking about DOGE? That data already existed in government databases. There was also no scraping involved.

I think "Scrapping" semantic meaning is slowly switching to "illegally collecting", and for those who mean that, your comment is perceived as pedantic (basically me when people talk about "crypto" and i am still responding "cryptocurrency you mean?")

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hrimfaxi 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Why would scraping have an unlawful connotation? I thought US courts have ruled scraping to be allowed.

	▲	verdverm 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		"scraping" is being used in two ways 1. Scraping a website, by anyone, allowed by courts if it is publicly accessible 2. "Scraping" of data, by the government, from various sources into a centralized database in partnership with Palantir. It's a worse version of the "Patriot" Act

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zzrrt 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

FYI, you wrote “scrapping”, but the word under discussion only has one P.

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daveguy 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It was exfiltration -- copying or moving data from an internal system to an external system. They insisted on and bragged about full access because now it would be "efficient". But it was clearly just simple opportunity for theft by a bunch of shady assholes. They also touted the ability to link data across multiple department to mine data on US citizens. The libertarian, "don't make databases of us" folks sat around with their thumbs up their asses because reasons. See also the Krebs link.

Why are you defending this crap? They also destroyed the departments that were actually making digital services more streamlined and easier to use 18F by dissolution and US Digital Services by capture.

doge was a fucking disaster.