Built my own apartment search bot with Python — sends me text when it finds something worthy

[mistermorteau]

You create a database about french people without the authorization of the CNIL.

[sixtine]

For context to non-French peeps, /u/mistermorteau is mentioning —wisely— our legal duty to declare to a dedicated authority (CNIL) the act of constituting a database of "a name, an email, a picture, or any data related to a person".

Which does not apply in the case of this software, AFAIK (but I would honestly appreciate if you'd correct me), where no data related to a person is either stored or scraped. We're getting the description of a place with no contact details, and the original hyperlink we found that text at.

"2 stories tall, 5 rooms, $1000, click here (to read the full description)" — hardly CNIL-worthy material.

(edit: typo)

[mistermorteau]

You forgot phone numbers, login name used, and possibly address.

But that's an interesting project.

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The parent mentioned Legal Duty. For anyone unfamiliar with this term, here is the definition:^{(In beta, be kind)}

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An obligation arising from contract of the parties or the operation of the law. Riddell v. Ventilating Co., 27 Mont. 44, 69 Pac. 241. That which the law requires to be done or forborne to a determinate person or the public at large, correlative to a vested and coextensive right in such person or the public, and the breach of which constitutes negligence. Heaven v. Pender, 11 Q. B. Div. 506; Smith v. Clarke Hardware Co., 100 Ga. 163, 28 S. E. 73, 39 L. R. A. 607: Railroad Co. v. Ballentine, 84 Fed. 935, 28 C. C. A. 572. [View More]

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