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Meta’s legal retreat doesn’t make your web data any safer
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from TechCrunch AI3h ago
Meta’s insistence that crawling behavior hasn't changed suggests this is a PR fix, not a strategic shift. If you are building a data moat, continue to prioritize technical blocks over trusting platform policy updates.
Takeaways
- Meta claims the policy update reflects no change in crawling operations.
- Public data remains at risk of ingestion for Meta’s model training.
- Treat legal language shifts as secondary to technical data protection.
Read the original at techcrunch.com
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
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