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Speaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
by 36erhefg 11y ago
Speaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
- icebraining 11y agoIANAL, but I'd say they can't sell the comments - they're copyrighted, and since they don't ask for an explicit license, the implied one is probably limited to displaying them on the site - but they could sell the votes/flags/karma information.
- tdylan 11y agoYC has little (to nothing) to gain by selling HN info, but everything to lose.