IT Home On October 18, Meta recently updated its commercial terms of service, stating that it has the right to “use any content from the [business account] domain name, webpage, or URL to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain” the integrity of Meta products and services.
IT Home noticed that legal experts who were interviewed by Nieman Lab said this is a “standout clause” that may give Meta the right to scrape the websites of content publishers with Meta enterprise accounts.Use the relevant content to train the permissions of its artificial intelligence model。
However, a Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms do not mean that Meta’s way of scraping the internet has changed. According to The Verge, the term has now been officially removed.
Meta said in a statement: “We have listened to the feedback from all parties, and hereby clarify: this update is a ‘merging and integration’ of existing advertising terms, rather than expanding crawler behavior; the revised terms now clearly limit crawlers and data collection to ‘advertising and commercial products’, and it is reiterated that webmasters can still control crawler permissions through robots.txt.”