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I once ran a social media marketing organization where we were very good about not scraping data outside of the terms and conditions of the networks we interacted with.

In so many of these breaches we're seeing cases where these analytics firms have data scraped from networks that is well in violation of terms - not mistakenly, but wanton disregard for data usage policies of those networks.

Why is nothing ever done about that?



we need gdpr in the us




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