Fwd: Re: Facebook scraping?

jim bell wrote:

On Thursday, December 19, 2019, 07:36:59 PM PST, Razer wrote:

jim bell wrote:

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Data of more than 267 million Facebook users has been exposed online https://mol.im/a/7811595 https://mol.im/a/7811595%20via 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

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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-web...  

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It depends on what you DO with the information. Just scraping it may not a crime, USING IT constitutes the crime 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 [Html and image redacted]