Meta delays new business terms after outcry over potential web scraping of news sites
Meta said it was postponing the rollout of new terms for its business accounts after an outcry from media companies and open-web advocates who said the updated rules would allow the tech giant to scrape vast amounts of data and potentially build competing services.
TL;DR
- Meta is postponing new terms for its business accounts.
- Media companies and open-web advocates raised concerns.
- The updated rules were criticized for potentially allowing data scraping.
- There are fears Meta could use scraped data to build competing services.