Meta removes commercial terms clause that appeared to allow scraping of business account domains for AI training
Meta updated its commercial terms of use to state it could "use any content from [a business account's] domains, web pages, or URLs" to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain its products and services. Legal experts quoted by Nieman Lab read this as a "remarkable provision" that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train its AI models. A Meta spokesperson said the update did not change how Meta crawls the web, and The Verge now reports the provision has been removed. Meta says the consolidated crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and that it has clarified this in the terms. This is a policy and legal-risk story about AI training data and scraping, with no vulnerability, intrusion or exploitation involved.
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Meta removes commercial terms clause that appeared to allow scraping of business account domains for AI training
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Meta updated its commercial terms of use to state it could "use any content from [a business account's] domains, web pages, or URLs" to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain its products and services. Legal experts quoted by Nieman Lab read this as a "remarkable provision" that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train its AI models. A Meta spokesperson said the update did not change how Meta crawls the web, and The Verge now reports the provision has been removed. Meta says the consolidated crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and that it has clarified this in the terms. This is a policy and legal-risk story about AI training data and scraping, with no vulnerability, intrusion or exploitation involved.