On-chain analysis should be unlawful in the European Union, and this is why

via Cryptocurrency News & Discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1cm7pmq/onchain_analysis_should_be_unlawful_in_the/ Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) indiscriminate web scraping, which involves techniques used to extract data from publicly available information on websites (such as texts, photos, videos, etc) is unlawful. There have been many investigations where authorities fined and stopped those who were scraping in an indiscriminate way. Facebook was actually fined for […]