Facebook Scraping: Still a Privacy Disaster(medium.com)
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Facebook Scraping: Still a Privacy Disaster
https://medium.com/@mackgrenfell/facebook-scraping-still-a-privacy-disaster-c70dd1896286
3 comments
If users are happy to publish the data
Surely 99% of people don't realise that 3rd parties can scrape which groups they're in/pages they're fans of? The scraper doesn't even need to add them as a friend for this, provided the group/page isn't private.
Surely 99% of people don't realise that 3rd parties can scrape which groups they're in/pages they're fans of? The scraper doesn't even need to add them as a friend for this, provided the group/page isn't private.
as soon as the data is public you should be able to scrape it legall no? you can always use something like proxy crawl
The main problem with Facebook is how much data they collect by themselves, including data collected by stalking the user (as opposed to data the user willingly posts on the platform).