Re: Scum
*Exactly* how I felt about that self-righteous, self-serving fake concern and attempt at moral ransom.
And as regards
his startup collected “public data from the open internet.”
Whether or not something is publicly-accessible (*) online, that doesn't automatically grant carte blanche to do anything they want with it. But then, they already know that damn well and they're resorting to this weasel-worded nonsense to defend the indefensible.
As you say, "scum".
(*) And this doesn't include cases where they had to click-through agreed terms and conditions and/or log in- again, having agreed to conditions when they signed up- to access that data.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
