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Data Scraping public athlete name and performance data. Does this need to be treated as personal data?
<p>Consider the following data for amateur/professional athletes:</p>

<ul>
<li>Athlete name,</li>
<li>Athletic event + best performance data</li>
</ul>

<p>e.g.:</p>

<ul>
<li>Joe Bloggs</li>
<li>5k 19:00</li>
<li>10k 40:00</li>
<li>Half Marathon 85:00</li>
<li>other events etc...</li>
</ul>

<p>and high level system outline:</p>

<ul>
<li>Data is collected from publicly available sources (data scraping)</li>
<li>Data is stored (cached) for up to one year</li>
<li>Data is made publicly available in a ranking format</li>
</ul>

<p>Which personal data or copyright (or other) legal considerations need to be made about this data?</p>

<p>Is there a difference between doing this kind of thing for team results or individual results?</p>

<p>Although this information does indeed count as <a href="https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">personal data</a>, I don't think it would be subject to GDPR requirements, on freedom of information grounds. This use seems like the "journalistic purposes" referenced in <a href="https://gdpr.eu/article-85-right-to-freedom-of-expression-and-information/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Article 85</a>. (If you follow that link, you can see how which GDPR requirements you would be specifically exempted from.) <a href="https://gdpr.eu/Recital-153-Processing-of-personal-data-solely-for-journalistic-purposes-or-for-the-purposes-of-academic-artistic-or-literary-expression/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Recital 153</a> also says that "journalistic purposes" should be interpreted broadly:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>In order to take account of the importance of the right to freedom of
  expression in every democratic society, it is necessary to interpret
  notions relating to that freedom, such as journalism, broadly.</p>
</blockquote>
