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The Trans Dataset Built Without Permission and Stored Improperly

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Data Security - What the Researchers Claim They Didn't Have

The researchers claimed they didn't download the entire videos and did not have them stored in a database. The full videos just sat there hanging out, even if the authors of the videos had taken them down from YouTube to avoid this kind of reuse. And it's to a Dropbox that isn't password protected at all, that is just open to the internet,. That contains the full videos from each of those YouTube links. But we found the repository that they were sending people and that they were throwing around to researchers in a whole host of countries.

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