Reading this weird paper about #ethics in #datascience
The brief story is this: researchers wanted to study crowdsourcing. They were going to scrape the data from a large crowdsourcing site but then realised that the same user data had been hacked and was available online. The moral quandary was whether to use the data.
My question is this: it is obviously wrong to use hacked data. So how is it morally fine to use the same data if you obtained it by scraping rather than hacking?
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