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Comment by sabujp | Hacker News Reader

Favoritism should have aboslutely nothing to do with this. Public stuff on the internet should be exactly that, public. You have no expectation of privacy and it's up to you as an owner/operator to maintain the security of your site, make sure you aren't being dos'd, screen scraped (use strong captchas, validated accounts), etc.

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I agree with your sentiment.

This case is about data behind an auth screen, so it may not so easily fall under the definition of public stuff

Yeah but this is about PRIVATE data like your miles and points after logging in to AA.

So not even sure your comment applies here.

But it's only accessing your private data with your authorization (by providing them your credentials). There is no hacking involved and it's not accessing people's information without consent.

I'm just responding to the claim of the parent comment that public stuff on the internet should remain public... This information is expressly NOT public, not sure why the expectation is that everyone should be able to see it.

It think you'll find that on page 47 of subparagraph 4 of the t+c you agreed to 27 years ago when you first flew on AA (since amended twice daily), that the data in question is in fact property of AA.

In all seriousness, this is the crux of many of the issues on the internet: Data about you, or generated by your activities, is probably not your in a legal sense.

In other words AA gives users a limited license to access AA data, and they are mad that you are allowing TPG to use that license. AA sees this as sharing your Spotify password to give them access to music.

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