Meta's revised terms still allow broad site scraping, legal experts say

Meta's revised business terms drop the word "train" but still let it crawl websites associated with business accounts and use the content to "develop" its "advertising and business products", Nieman Lab reports. Three legal experts told Nieman Lab this remains broad: one said "develop" is wide enough to include training, and Cornell's James Grimmelmann said the wording still lets Meta scrape entire sites. Meta says robots.txt preferences are respected, but the revised terms do not say so, and one expert noted that following robots.txt is voluntary. The European Publishers Council plans to ask EU regulators to examine the terms, and the UK's News Media Association has called on the government to step in. The terms take effect on 30 October, with no opt out.