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Interesting...I would've guessed that this was referring to propietary algorithms used by the criminal justice system to determine recidivism [1], but it's actually about pushing back against the CFAA, which may restrict researchers' ability to write scrapers and deploy bots (and create fake profiles on services).

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

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