Source assessmentSupporting
No Robots, Spiders, or Scrapers: Legal and Ethical Regulation of Data Collection Methods in Social Media Terms of Service
Legal and ethical data collectionAcademic
Assessment outcome
total 4/6 (actionability 1 + authority 2 + currency 1)
Total4/6
Actionability1/2
Authority2/2
Currency1/2
Authorship & scope
Attribution (G4 evidence)
No evidence recorded for this source.
Issuer authority (evidence)
No evidence recorded for this source.
Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.
Eligibility gates
G1 · Retrievablepass
Passed in screening.
G2 · AI nexuspass
Passed in screening.
G3 · Governance nexuspass
Passed in screening.
G4 · Attributablepass
Passed in screening.
G5 · In forcepass
Passed in screening.
Scored criteria
Actionability
1/2No rationale recorded.
By considering our analysis of the nature of these provisions alongside legal and ethical analysis, we propose that ethical decision-making for data collection should extend beyond TOS and consider contextual factors of the data source and research.
Authority
2/2No rationale recorded.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020) No Robots, Spiders, or Scrapers: Legal and Ethical Regulation of Data Collection Methods in Social Media Terms of Service Casey Fiesler,1∗ Nathan Beard,2 Brian C. Keegan1
Currency
1/2No rationale recorded.
Classification
Coverage topicLegal and ethical data collection
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stage2 Collect & process data
Layerhuman
GranularityNot recorded