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by magnusss 2399 days ago
Let me make sure I understand: If I take gigabytes of “enriched” personal information and make it available to the public for free, then I’m an irresponsible, idiotic, incompetent buffoon. But if I put a paywall in front of it and sell that same data for a fair price, then I’m a business genius?

Seems to me that if the data is legally acquired and can be legally distributed, doing so at a cost of zero does not constitute a data leak. It may be bad business, but since when is that a crime?