Bundesanzeiger Crawling

Explore the challenges and controversies surrounding public financial data accessibility in Germany in this 42-minute conference talk. Delve into the privatization of the Bundesanzeiger Verlag (Federal Gazette Publishing House) and its impact on corporate financial transparency. Learn about the legal obligations for companies to publish annual financial statements, the monopolistic control of this crucial information, and the ethical concerns raised by selling publicly mandated data. Examine the technical and legal hurdles faced when attempting to access and analyze this information, including outdated web interfaces and captcha protection. Discover potential solutions for liberating this data, such as distributed crawling techniques and neural network-based captcha solving. Consider the broader implications for public access to corporate financial information and the need for reform in line with open data initiatives like "OffeneGesetze.de".

#rC3 - Bundesanzeiger Crawling