I know it sounds like that thing they all say , but we don ' t use it . You might not have any malicious intent or larger plans for the data you ' ve collectedbut as any enterprising government researcher knows , it ' s entirely possible to have all sorts of research fun with other people ' s datasets . Your university andor institutional sponsor has more control over your intellectual property than you know . TBH Occam ' s razor has it someone will just steal your idea and brew a bigger , better , and more comprehensive catalog of scraped images from social media . Maybe create a module to integrate into some existing collection platform and code name it RASPBERRYSNOT , or something equally stupid . Nice work if you can get it ! Oh well . Nevermind me , I ' ll just counterfactually muddle along with my hypothetical collection of oneuseonly dumpsterdived trash phones . Thought for the dayThe internet was supposed to liberate knowledge , but in fact it buried it , first under a vast sewer of ignorance , laziness , bigotry , superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance . Now . cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce , gossip and pornography . And of course to hunt down sedition . Only paper is safe . Books are the key . A book cannot be accessed from afar , you have to hold it , you have to read it . Ben Elton