The Steampunk Explorer on Mythryl: “Nieman Lab reports that Meta has revised the controversial…”

Nieman Lab reports that Meta has revised the controversial commercial terms that are slated to take effect Oct. 30. However, legal experts remain skeptical. Meanwhile, three journalism orgs spoke out about the terms. I provided the tip that led Nieman Lab to the original story.

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org

On Friday, Meta removed the word “train” from a list of allowed use cases and limited those uses to “advertising and business products." The revised terms will still allow for broad website scraping, potentially superseding robots.txt files, according to legal experts. buff.ly/ByhIcB2

buff.lyLegal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changesAllowing scraped content to be used for all "advertising and business products" is a substantial expansion of Meta's permissions.

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