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by Nextgrid
1538 days ago
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It's definitely a breach of ToS, but I wouldn't be so fast at calling it illegal. It's a grey area that has yet to be properly litigated - I think the closest we've got is the LinkedIn scraping case and I don't remember whether that one even reached a conclusive answer. In fact this is one of the downsides of the US legal system - litigation is so expensive that nobody dares trying it even though it could set a legal precedent that would benefit society at large. This is IMO something a consumer-friendly regulatory environment (such as the EU) should settle in advance like with the GDPR for example, but given they're not even bothered to enforce that effectively, I don't have much hope (if they enforced it, it would actually remove a big use-case for scraping Instagram, as you would be able to use the official clients without compromising your privacy). |
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...