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Andrea Squatrito
Personal blog · blog.databoutique.comdatabusinesseconomics
Andrea Squatrito writes Data Boutique, a personal blog at blog.databoutique.com about data, business and economics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its article on the legal context of web scraping, covering how PII and intellectual property rules apply. The one comment cites it as a source for the claim that scraping can be legal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web-Scraped data marketplace.
What Hacker News says?
On the legal side, legislation in the US, UK and EU is clear on PII (personally identifiable Informtion) and IP (Intellectual Property). Web scraping can be perfectly legal when these elements are considered. Here my article https://blog.databoutique.com/p/web-scraping-legal-context
Comment linking /p/web-scraping-legal-context
on “The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data”Submitted Tracking How Bad the Situation at Farfetch Is as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Scraping Is a Commodity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hard Economics of Selling Web Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussion