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Facebook Scraping: Still a Privacy Disaster

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  Scraping is not a privacy problem, or Facebook's problem to fix. If users are happy to publish the data, or add the scraper's account as a "friend" (so it can see "friends only" content) then the user is happy for them to have the data. The main problem with Facebook is how much data they collect by themselves, including data collected by stalking the user (as opposed to data the user willingly posts on the platform).
  • mackgrenfell 7y ago
    If users are happy to publish the data Surely 99% of people don't realise that 3rd parties can scrape which groups they're in/pages they're fans of? The scraper doesn't even need to add them as a friend for this, provided the group/page isn't private.
• kamutuna 7y ago
  as soon as the data is public you should be able to scrape it legall no? you can always use something like proxy crawl