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		barryrandall on Aug 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is... Is it any better if the data is scraped from public sources and sold as a real-time analytics tool?

nico401 on Aug 14, 2024 [–]

I strongly believe so, the same way a business can check competitors' prices. If it's public, it's fair game.

Note: I am biased, I'm working on a platform that does exactly that, taking an orthogonal direction to real estate analytics: https://www.hellodata.ai. Using 100% public data.

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