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Mike 137 Silver badge

Re: Terminology

instead of the correct term, "stolen"

Possibly because (under English law at least) 'steal' means to 'permanently deprive' the victim of the asset. If the data are harvested (i.e. copied) but the source is not then deleted, the data have not been stolen.

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