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Legal experts say Meta's revised terms still allow broad data scraping

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Legal experts have raised concerns that Meta's newly revised terms of service continue to grant the company wide-ranging scraping permissions. Their warnings follow language changes Meta introduced, which critics argue do not substantively limit how data can be collected. The analysis was reported by Nieman Lab, which examined the updated wording against the original provisions. The article's text provided is limited to the link and metadata, so further details on the specific clauses and any Meta response are not available here.

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Legal experts say Meta's revised terms still allow broad data scraping · ShortSingh