I have always been curious about the TOS on this. If I set up a group of people to click and record each page, I'm in the clear. So, what if it's a bookmark file they are clicking from? What if the outbound links are automatically filtered and collated? What if my browser is pre-fetching pages? I guess the question is: at what point does it become automated. It seems to me that there should be a kind of Turing Test for scraping and crawling: if you can't tell from the server side that it's not a human, then it should be considered a human. I know, that's not a practical proposal, but I just *wish* that was how it was handled. Alex On 10/3/07, Fred Stutzman <fred@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
Dear Cathy,
Following up on Nicole's observations, I've encountered similar policies. After some Facebook research was released last month FB Privacy Counsel Chris Kelly followed up with me and stated: "Such sharing (or the scraping of data by researchers) is not allowable under our current policy." Sorry about this.
-Fred
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