[greatgib]

The user agreed in facebook to have is data "public", so it can't complain that a robot scrap it.

Nothing prevents him to restrict access to his pages an data to "trusted" friends.

[kube-system]

The description in the article sounds like it scrapes private profile data.

> Octopus designed the software to scrape data accessible to the user when logged into their accounts

[Kwpolska]

Were they showing the private data to everyone, or just to the person whose account was used for the scraping? If it’s the latter, then this is also not a crime, it is just someone accessing data they have been authorized to access, but in an automated way.

[greatgib]

I don't think so, it is more like you scrape what is accessible to this user. So in the end you will scrape your friends data. This is why I said that you are free to only share with friends that 'you trust'.