Navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to scraping LinkedIn data for academic research by André José de Queiroz Padilha, Jesús Pascual Mena-Chalco

“…It explores strategies to ethically and legally navigate scraping, providing recommendations on how researchers can responsibly collect LinkedIn data, ensuring compliance with evolving privacy laws and ethical standards. Finally, technical considerations are discussed, emphasizing the use of tools like Selenium to overcome LinkedIn's sophisticated anti-scraping measures.…”
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LINKS. A System for Historical Family Reconstruction in the Netherlands by Kees Mandemakers, Gerrit Bloothooft, Fons Laan, Joe Raad, Rick J. Mourits, Richard L. Zijdeman

“…These certificates are available from 1812 — the start of the Dutch Vital Registration — until the year they are confidential based on privacy laws. For more than 20 years, thousands of volunteers have been working to build this index, which contains not only the names of newborn, married and deceased persons, but also the names of their parents, places of birth, ages and sometimes their occupational titles. …”
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Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation by Shah Imran Alam, Ihtiram Raza Khan, Syed Imtiyaz Hassan, Farheen Siddiqui, M. Afshar Alam, Anil Kumar Mahto

“…In our study, we point out that privacy is one of the consistent and leading barriers among others. Strong privacy laws restrict data owners from opening the data freely. …”
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Googling Patients by Emily Beer

“…Apart from the rigid context of existing statutes and laws, discussions surrounding the ethics of data, privacy, and security are occurring, and privacy laws are undergoing a period of rapid change. …”
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