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using robots.txt for evil

2025-08-13 17:20:52.914577+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Cal Matters: Data companies found hiding mandatory privacy pages

But among the state’s most recent database of nearly 500 data brokers, Colin and Tomas found that 35 companies had code that hid their deletion instructions from showing up in Google searches.

Via ResearchBuzz.

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