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Surely there are countless other cases of Facebook booting users for scraping data, and often for much less. The choice of cases the FTC honchos choose to weigh
by balozi 5y ago
Surely there are countless other cases of Facebook booting users for scraping data, and often for much less. The choice of cases the FTC honchos choose to weigh in on is very odd.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoLikely so, though I like the idea that the FTC chose to act in the name of 'public interest' - presumably most scraping is of use only to the scraper and/or their customers?
- mcguire 5y agoFacebook shutting down an academic research project that monitors Facebooks's privacy-affecting actions? And invoking the FTC consent decree to do it? The FTC objection doesn't seem odd at all.
- zonethundery 5y agoAgree. I don't think FTC can leave FB's assertion unanswered here.