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[โ€“] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, that makes sense. I had no idea that CitiBike data was publicly accessible.

[โ€“] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Even if it wasn't him scraping the data is not the issue here for the aforementioned reasons. It all exists anyways, neatly organized on centralized server infrastructure. This Data cannot not exist unless you want to turn back the clock to like thousands of dudes on rikshas. Given that, it's either only the state can see it and use it, or everybody can.

What this guy did is dumbass witchhunting. Even removed from the idea a guy doing a planned assassination would stoop so low as to fuck with a citibke to disable or futz it's tracking, the expanded post simply shows this is the only bike taken from a nearby station and going northbound and dropped off there. Guy might've gotten it from one like half an hour away.