Sofia Marin
Policy & Compliance
Sofia covers the rules around web data: what the law says about collecting it, privacy and GDPR, robots.txt and AI opt-outs, and how to collect responsibly. Her articles are general information, not legal advice.
Writes about
- Legality of web data collection
- GDPR and privacy
- robots.txt and AI opt-outs
- Collection ethics and policy
Articles by Sofia Marin
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October 24, 2026 · Knowledge
The Security Questionnaire Your InfoSec Team Will Send a Proxy Vendor
What InfoSec and procurement ask a proxy vendor, section by section: IP sourcing, logging, access control, audits, GDPR terms and incident response.
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October 21, 2026 · Knowledge
Web Scraping and the Rise of Data Access Agreements: Best Practices to Regain Control of Your Data
More sites now license their data through paid APIs and agreements. What data access agreements cover, and how collectors and data owners should use them.
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October 17, 2026 · Knowledge
What Is OSINT? Sources, Techniques & Legal Boundaries
OSINT is intelligence built from publicly available information. What counts as a source, the core techniques, how the work is organised, and where the legal and ethical lines are.
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October 17, 2026 · Knowledge
A Proxy Is Not an Anonymity Tool: What We Cannot Promise You
A proxy changes the IP address a website sees. It does not make you anonymous. What a proxy hides, what it does not, and what a provider can still see.
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October 14, 2026 · Knowledge
Alternative Data for Investment Research: The Compliance Layer Nobody Documents
Web data can give investors an edge, and a compliance problem. What funds ask of alternative data, why it matters, and how to build datasets that pass review.
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October 10, 2026 · Knowledge
What Your Legal Team Will Ask Before Approving a Scraping Project
The questions legal and compliance teams ask before they sign off on web data collection, why they ask them, and what a good answer looks like.
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October 7, 2026 · Knowledge
Who Owns Scraped Data? Rights, Licensing and What You Can Resell
Collecting web data does not make you its owner. Which rights sit in a scraped dataset, what you can license or resell, and what stays someone else's.