TY - JOUR AU - Bell, Graeme Baxter PY - 2010/02/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The dangers of Webcrawled datasets JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 15 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v15i2.2739 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2739 SP - AB - This article highlights legal, ethical and scientific problems arising from the use of large experimental datasets gathered from the Internet - in particular, image datasets. Such datasets are currently used within research into topics such as information forensics and image-processing. This paper strongly recommends against webcrawling as a means for generating experimental datasets, and proposes safer alternatives. ER -