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How does this violate 4square's ToS? And how do you distinguish between this app and "legitimate" apps.
by dfc 15y ago
How does this violate 4square's ToS? And how do you distinguish between this app and "legitimate" apps.
- jeltz 15y agoIt made bad press for 4square. I bet that is the only difference between this and legitimate users.
- jes5199 15y agoI read the policy - https://foursquare.com/legal/api/platformpolicy https://foursquare.com/legal/api/platformpolicy and I can't figure out the objection. Plus, all of the information mentioned in the article (who's at location A? what's their facebook profile?) is visible on foursquare.com !
- dfc 15y agoI checked it too and could not find anything. I also looked at the individual ToS and wonder if incorporating the "house rules" has anything to do with it...
- ojbyrne 15y ago"Foursquare may revoke your authentication credentials at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you or any other person" Sort of ... if you follow every single one of our rules to the letter, we still reserve the right to revoke your access because we just don't like you.
- dfc 15y agoThat is a revocation of the license, not a violation of any terms of the agreement(s) with foursquare.
- akdotcom_ 15y agoHey dfc, We have a policy against aggregating herenow information across venues using our API, to use like this. You can see it clearly stated here in the description for the endpoint: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/herenow https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/herenow We also prohibit using our API in any manner that is threatening, invasive of another's privacy, or otherwise inappropriate. As mentioned in another reply, we do also reserve the right to revoke access to our API for any reason, at our sole discretion. That being said, we aim to be consistent and transparent in our policies and how we enforce them. Cheers, ~ak, platform evangelist @ foursquare