Meta Revises Its Commercial Terms of Service Again

Andrew Deck and Hanaa’ Tameez, Nieman Lab: In its revision, published Friday afternoon, Meta removed the word “train” from a list of allowed use cases and limited those uses to “advertising and business products,” rather than all Meta products. But the revised terms will still allow for broad scraping of websites, potentially superseding robots.txt files, according to legal experts. Meta is adamant it will not misuse these capabilities in the way these legal experts say it can. If promises are being made by a company with the kind of public respect and trust Meta has, you can take its tweeted word over its new legal permissions for all the weight that it carries. ⌥ Permalink