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by laura_g 1666 days ago
This would be membership inference attacks - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7958568...
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Oh excellent. But of course the key addition is handing off this information to lawyers who use it to shut you down and/or extract money from you.

If you are using some torrent of a dataset, nobody is indemnifying you, and once you get to the discovery phase of a lawsuit, they are going to know that you intentionally grabbed a dataset you knew you shouldn't have had access to. Treble damages!