I just wrote a fb scraper, using a headless browser:
https://github.com/niczem/trawler
Still a d*ckmove from FB, especially considering that a browser plugin can not really be used to scale up. Anyway, looking forward to hear from FB :)
Still a d*ckmove from FB, especially considering that a browser plugin can not really be used to scale up. Anyway, looking forward to hear from FB :)
That's the reason the actor in the article is being sued, not because they're scraping, but because it was sending it to a 3rd party without consent or knowledge.
You can probably mislead them all you want in most jurisdictions. After all, that's what Facebook is already doing - how many of its billion+ users do you think are fully aware of how much external data Facebook gets access to?
Outright lying on the other hand, that's what's going to get you in trouble:
> a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information