Have a Meta business account? You’re consenting to AI scraping now, legal experts say
Source: ZDNet ·
And there’s no opt-out available.
From the source
Meta’s new commercial terms allow its web scrapers, bots, and agents to crawl websites “associated with” Meta business accounts, including news publishers, according to a report by Nieman Lab . The terms apply to accounts that use Meta Business Suite’s account dashboard. Companies manage their Instagram profiles, Facebook pages, Messenger, and WhatsApp channels through Meta Business Suite. ZDNET uses Meta Business Suite to analyze and schedule posts across social media platforms. Also: Meta Muse is the worst AI agent for privacy – and I’ve tried them all Legal experts tapped by Nieman Lab said the terms give Meta permission to scrape the sites of its associated business accounts and use the data to train its AI products. The changes go into effect on Oct. 30, and Meta will not provide an opt-out, meaning publishers will either agree to the web-scraping or be booted from the platform. These are Meta’s new terms and conditions for web-crawling: You authorize us (or any entity acting on…
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