1.Does the illegal nature of the data collection and the release of private data taint the data in the release that was already publicly available?

2. Users of Patreon initially had an expectation of privacy, but that privacy no longer exists. Do researchers need to respect the intent or the reality?

3. Scholars and journalists share some functions in dealing with information and making it accessible to the public, but are the ethical considerations the same? If not, why not?

4. Researchers will nearly always claim that their research will have a net public benefit and thus their methods are justified. Who gets to decide is that is accurate in any given case?