You have to understand, these are paid professionals and their job it to hype it up to no end. Right now, AI panic sells better than bleed so..

It is very messed up what happened. It apparently used an interface to download the data instead of using the website!

And in another case it downloaded data through a publicly available free to download data, but then it rehosted the data elsewhere which is against the terms of service.

At least these are federal systems.

In some Republican states like Missouri, even if the data is available publicly, you can be charged as a hacker by the governor for discovering and accessing it. https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor...