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Surely if true, that means any web crawler must first locate and understand every single websites terms of service before it can be sure what it is allowed to d
by axod 17y ago
Surely if true, that means any web crawler must first locate and understand every single websites terms of service before it can be sure what it is allowed to do.
For a start though, you could easily state that facebook freely allow access to data, without requiring you to read terms&conditions.
You could argue that by freely allowing access to all of their data, without requiring you to read and agree to the terms of usage, then their claims have no basis.
If they did want to restrict access, or make sure every crawler had first agreed to T&C, it wouldn't take long for them to add that.
- Vivtek 17y agoI think this is missing the point. Facebook's attorneys don't care about the technical details. They already know that whatever is technically possible is entirely subordinate to how they can threaten the owners of the technology. It hasn't been tested in court, and there's a truly excellent chance Facebook would lose - either in terms of the court or in terms of what's left of their privacy reputation - but that doesn't matter one little bit. They have attorneys and money, and that's all that matters in this instance. Really. The facile assumption that "it's possible to aggregate thus it's OK to aggregate" is exactly the way normal people think (by which I mean, tongue-in-cheek, us), but corporate attorneys see all this in terms of power relationships and contracts. As far as they're concerned, the poster took pictures through their front windows, and they're damn well going to threaten him with kneecapping until he gives them his negatives.