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by danuker 1447 days ago
> and there's no evidence they did so in this case.

Indeed; the users probably wanted to make the data public, if scraper accounts could see it. There is a GDPR allowance for data "manifestly made public by the data subject".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/

Here, it's just Facebook wanting to keep the data inside a walled garden.

For the same reason, I quit LinkedIn and made my own site. I don't want people to have to sign in to see my profile.