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Comment by willmarch

2 days ago

Why?

Because when you're research individuals you are crossing the line between 'just futzing around' and 'building up a file on a person without their consent'.

For instance, for NL:

https://www.justis.nl/producten/particuliere-beveiliging-en-...

  • The link you've given doesn't have any relevance to this, that's a page for registering a private security agency. I can assume you hallucinated the first answer and are now just linking random sources.

  • Is there specific legal guidance about whether doing this in a training run is against the law? It seems like your link is for commercial / for-hire investigative work.

That's doxxing. The gathering part is illegal in some countries, usually with a ton of caveats like doing that with malicious intent. Illegal or not, it raises some questions.