Is aggregating by username (or name) some public data, and then publishing it on the internet, something that should be limited? I'm probably biased - on a much smaller scale, that's something I'm doing too on hashtagify.me, where you can also find a relative "score" for twitter users related to specific hashtags - but this reasoning looks very dangerous to me.
Just to make an example, if I collect the data about political contributions made by a given industrialist, and publish that data on my blog to say something about that person's influence and political leaning, should the said person be able to stop me?
On the other hand, if the published data or the accompanying analysis is demonstrably incorrect, biased, and especially if it could be considered libel, there are already ways to react. I think that those ways should already be enough to protect one's only reputation.
Just to make an example, if I collect the data about political contributions made by a given industrialist, and publish that data on my blog to say something about that person's influence and political leaning, should the said person be able to stop me?
On the other hand, if the published data or the accompanying analysis is demonstrably incorrect, biased, and especially if it could be considered libel, there are already ways to react. I think that those ways should already be enough to protect one's only reputation.