Updated: Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has raised a firestorm in the media world with new commercial terms that appeared to give it broad authorization to scrape users’ web pages for product development and AI training. News coverage originated from a tip from The Steampunk Explorer.
Since previous TOS allow them to change the TOS at any time without warning, does that mean an abandoned, or account put on hold, automatically is made to agree to this?
This kind of stuff only was allowed by the courts in the last couple decades plus. In the Bush years. Courts used to throw out entire contracts for one illegal part, now they legalized those things and allow the rest to remain in place if part is illegal.