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AT proto is an open network. Everything you do is public by default. e.g. anyone else can just drink from the firehose.

Yeah, but that doesn't solve the data privacy problem. Not that I care, I'd love to be able to do all sorts of stuff with scraped datasets.

One would hope the people on bluesky understand that they're posting publically to a centralized database. What data privacy problem are you concerned with?

As I understand it, the moment you're processing someone's personally identifiable information, you're in the red zone, GDPR-wise. The users consented to publish their info on BlueSky, but not on OP's website.

I get the idea behind the GDPR and it's nice to protect consumers but I'm scared for hobby projects like this.

I think GDPR itself is a bit unclear here. Google Search still operates in Europe as far as I know even though it scrapes and indexes people's websites without explicit consent, and I suspect GDPR doesn't intend to make it illegal to do this. Could be wrong...

IANAL but at least in the U.S. I'm pretty sure publicly-available data is generally excluded from whatever protections do exist on PII. I'm not sure what, if anything, has been said about this in the EU.

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