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Publicly released OkCupid profiles taken down due to DMCA claim
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.
Scientists release personal data for 70,000 OkCupid profiles (updated)
A group of Danish researchers scraped data from 70,000 OkCupid profiles, packaged it in a data set, and released it on the internet. While the profiles are technically public, collecting personal information on such a massive scale without getting consent from either OkCupid or the users themselves is at the very least a breach of social science ethics, experts say.
