throwwebmaster

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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
In reply to your sibling comment: I actually agree with you in the anonymous case and point out that many of the examples named (including FB, the topic of discussion) require user authentication.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
While I appreciate your nod to my writing (I have a mutual appreciation, I might add, for your Soliloquising), again, none of the data obtained was public.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
The parties here would be the US FTC and FB, so no.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
Interesting that you mentioned Twitter. Twitter requires a user account to access content. Try accessing Twitter while logged out.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
The FTC is a US government entity.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
Is it public though? For one thing, you need to have a registered user account and be part of the targeting audience as a winning biddee for ad placement in order to see the ads in question. As an ordinary person, unless you share your priv
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
It will be interesting to see how the FTC will rectify its ongoing fight to hold FB more accountable for protecting its users’ private data with the FTC’s ostensibly contradictory position to allow mass scraping of private user data at scal
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
No. According to many rulings the last few years, continually and systematically accessing a third party’s data under the clear expectation that you are aware of (as well as agreed to) their terms is definitely a meeting of minds.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
This clear instance of reductio ad absurdum is wholly non-analogous. Factually inaccurate court proceeding depictions and legal misunderstandings aside, for one thing, the non-hypothetical defendant’s identity is well-known in this specific
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
Less speculation and more facts: https://www.upcounsel.com/are-website-terms-and-conditions-l... This is heavily supported by Case Law.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
As I stated before, Illegal or not, it is within the website owners’ rights to restrict access.
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
By accessing the data on a website, you are forming a contract with that website and are subject to the website’s terms and conditions. As a website owner, beyond that, there is no need to tell someone they cannot access your site if you si
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
It’s within anyone’s rights as website maintainers to block malicious IP addresses that scrape or otherwise within their discretion. Nobody is legally forcing websites to allow access to everyone, and accordingly, nobody is altering the law
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by throwwebmaster 5y ago
Don’t most websites prohibit someone from scraping and harvesting the data on them? Most recently, I can think of Yelp, Amazon, and GitHub prohibiting this, as well as the Aaron Swartz case.