Statistics I'd say is one of the useful cases of scraping.
Back in 2013, a guy scraped the results of about 150,000 students giving their 10th grade finals of a particular examination board in India. He showed that not only was there no privacy of student's marks because the roll numbers were all linearly incremented, but there was also mass-scale manipulation of marks going on.
The concept is simple but it's a very interesting read.
Facinating read, I cannot find out more about what happened to him after he was accused of 'hacking' the govt systems, do you have any more sources that sheds some light on that?
Back in 2013, a guy scraped the results of about 150,000 students giving their 10th grade finals of a particular examination board in India. He showed that not only was there no privacy of student's marks because the roll numbers were all linearly incremented, but there was also mass-scale manipulation of marks going on.
The concept is simple but it's a very interesting read.
https://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sy...
I was one of the 150,000 kids that gave those exams back in 2013 :)