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| DATE | 2016-05-22 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] one of the better DMCA enforcements to date
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http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/17/publicly-released-okcupid-profiles-taken-down-dmca-claim/
Publicly released OkCupid profiles taken down due to DMCA claim
The profiles were scraped from the site and released as part of a
psychology research paper.
A cache of 70,000 OkCupid profiles posted online in the name of
scientific "research" last week has been taken down due to a copyright
claim. The data was scraped from the dating site by Emil Kirkegaard and
Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær, two graduate students at Aarhus University
in Denmark, who then posted the information on Open Science Framework.
While the data was somewhat anonymous, it did include usernames,
locations and personal information like sexual orientation, political
leanings or turn-ons, and as Motherboard explained last week it wouldn't
have been difficult to reverse engineer the data set to identify
individuals.
At the time, OkCupid claimed the scraping the site for data violated the
site's user agreement and it now appears Open Science Framework is
complying with OkCupid's DMCA claim. "The repository is currently
unavailable due to a DMCA claim sent by OKCupid. It's unclear to me
which part they claim copyright on," Kirkegaard told Retraction Watch.
Kirkegaard also edits a research journal called Open Differential
Psychology, where he submitted a paper based on the data, but that paper
is now subject to "internal discussions." After the controversy broke,
Aarhus University distanced itself from Kirkegaard, stating that the
OkCupid project was not part of his student work at the university.
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