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The user agreed in facebook to have is data "public", so it can't complain that a robot scrap it. Nothing prevents him to restrict access to his pages an data
by greatgib 4y ago
The user agreed in facebook to have is data "public", so it can't complain that a robot scrap it.
Nothing prevents him to restrict access to his pages an data to "trusted" friends.
- kube-system 4y agoThe description in the article sounds like it scrapes private profile data. > Octopus designed the software to scrape data accessible to the user when logged into their accounts
- greatgib 4y agoI don't think so, it is more like you scrape what is accessible to this user. So in the end you will scrape your friends data. This is why I said that you are free to only share with friends that 'you trust'.
- Kwpolska 4y agoWere they showing the private data to everyone, or just to the person whose account was used for the scraping? If it’s the latter, then this is also not a crime, it is just someone accessing data they have been authorized to access, but in an automated way.