Scientists release personal data for 70,000 OkCupid profiles

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. The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard, Oliver Nordbjerg, and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær, used software...

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