> scrapping attack
That cracked me up when I read it lol
Taking action against scraping for hire
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#12Fingers crossed they eventually get around to suing Clearview AI out of existence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-priv...
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#13This is different from LinkedIn v HiQ because HiQ was only scraping publicly available data that was generally accessible to the broader internet. In these two cases, the data is being scraped from FB/Insta using credentials that the client handed over or the mass creation of accounts solely for scraping purposes.
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#14Data harvesting is moral for me, but not for thee.
It's their platform. Do you really want some random companies scraping your facebook and instagram posts?
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#15>Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise, built a cloud-based platform designed to provide paying customers access to on-demand scraping software and services.
It is interesting as how they try to position this as a Chinese attack on them.
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#16Of course, Facebook wants to make it sound like scraping is illegal, when it generally isn't.
But account hijacking and mass-creation of accounts just to access private pages are clear violations of the Facebook and Instagram ToS, so they surely can sue for that.
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#17I would consider this appropriate if one of the largest offenders of scrapping weren't the one pretending to be the offended.
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#18They are will using fb.com domain? I though meta is not FaceBook?....
I think it's like Google vs Alphabet. Alphabet is the parent company like Meta.
As for why their domain is facebook for their news site, not sure why. It would make for sense for it to be under meta instead.
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#19Data harvesting is moral for me, but not for thee.
In general I agree that harvesting public data is moral. I think that in these particular cases it's: 1) extracting data from profiles that opted for not being public (only available to logged in users) and 2) reposting scraped data (publicly?) as belonging to the guy who scraped it without users consent.
The state of "opted for not being public" and 'available to any system authenticated person' seem contradictory.
I appreciate that 'system authenticated person' is a smaller set than those who can access anything publicly accessible, and that the former is a subset of the latter.
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#20We need to update the law to make sure Meta loses in cases like this.