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Meta's Updated Terms Allow Crawling Business Websites for AI Training Starting Oct. 30

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Meta's updated terms, effective Oct. 30, grant the company rights to crawl websites tied to Facebook or Instagram business accounts for AI training purposes.

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Meta has updated its terms of service to allow the company to crawl business websites linked to Facebook or Instagram accounts in order to train its AI systems, effective Oct. 30. The clause extends to any site associated with a business account, though Meta characterizes the practice as limited to product data collection. PPC Land raises questions about the scope and intent of the expanded crawling rights.

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