No, this wasn't just garden variety web crawling. Sites can control whether they get crawled or not. Facebook, for example, stops Google from crawling Faceboo

No, this wasn't just garden variety web crawling. Sites can control whether they get crawled or not. Facebook, for example, stops Google from crawling Facebook profiles. But Facebook allowed "malicious actors" to access to user profiles for "most of its 2 billion users worldwide". These 2 billion users didn't choose to expose their personal information to "malicious actors", Facebook did it without their consent.