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I don’t see why “publicly accessible data” is relevant: if I want to scrape my Facebook news feed and consume it as an RSS feed, I don’t see any justification f
by fiddlerwoaroof 5y ago
I don’t see why “publicly accessible data” is relevant: if I want to scrape my Facebook news feed and consume it as an RSS feed, I don’t see any justification for preventing me from doing this. The fact that I can see someone’s post in my web browser means I’m authorized to access that post.
- paxys 5y agoThe difference is when you created a Facebook account and logged in using your username & password you agreed to their terms of service.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoA document no one reads can’t really be a contract, regardless of what the law says.
- paxys 5y agoWell sadly what the law says matters
- Jensson 5y agoAre you sure? Doesn't courts typically throw out cases where companies try to argue that those are binding?
- paxys 5y agoNo, it depends on what courts consider "unconscionable". We will likely never know for simple cases like changing your user agent because Facebook isn't going to sue someone over it, but they have fought (and won) against wholesale scraping of user profiles, which is mentioned in the linked article.