Facebook scraping?

[jim bell]

    On Friday, December 20, 2019, 08:59:51 AM PST, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:  
 
 jim bell wrote:
> On Thursday, December 19, 2019, 07:36:59 PM PST, Razer
> <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> jim bell wrote:
> > Data of more than 267 million Facebook users has been exposed online
> https://mol.im/a/7811595 <https://mol.im/a/7811595%20>via
> http://dailym.ai/android
> >
> > Jim Bell's comment:
> > Article refers to "an illegal process called scraping...".
> > I am not aware that "scraping" is illegal, or even wrong.
> >        Jim Bell
>
>
>> >FCC says passing it on or using the information for personal gain is,
> >>and there's no reason to scrape pages unless one of those two are
> >>operational.
>
>
> >Document that.   Somewhat to the contrary
>> is: https://blog.zwillgen.com/2019/09/11/ninth-circuit-rules-scraping-public-website-likely-not-cfaa-violation/  
>
>
>> [partial quote follows]


>It depends on what you DO with the information. Just scraping it may not
a crime, USING IT constitutes the crime
If that were true, then it wouldn't matter HOW you obtained the information:  Scraping or 'by hand'.
Jim Bell


>and always has and it's the same
on Amateur Radio as well so lookitup. I'm not your research assistant.

>PS. Prelim Injunctions are pretty much summarily granted until a court
hearing.

Rr

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