Meta commercial terms let it scrape business sites for AI training
Original title: Meta wants to scrape your website to train its AI, and you can’t say no
The terms take effect October 30, 2026, and the News/Media Alliance says business accounts cannot opt out.
Meta plans to change commercial terms on October 30, 2026, so it can collect content from websites tied to business customers and use it to train models and improve products, according to The Register. Accepting the terms authorizes scrapers, bots and crawlers, plus periodic updates. The News/Media Alliance says there is no opt-out short of leaving Meta’s products and calls the change likely illegal. Reports mention robots.txt controls, but the contract does not promise them. Meta did not comment to The Register.
Unconfirmed: Whether Meta will honor robots.txt is not stated in the contract, and the company did not respond to The Register.
- Business customers include advertisers, sellers, app developers, Page managers and Business Suite users.
- At least one million businesses already use Meta’s AI agents in WhatsApp and Messenger.
- The Alliance says any online intellectual property linked to a business account could be collected.
- The published contract does not promise that robots.txt will limit Meta’s crawlers.
- Vendors
- Meta
- Organizations
- News/Media Alliance
From the original article
3 min read at securityaffairs.comMeta wants the right to scrape your website for AI training. If you have a business account, that includes you. At the end of the month, Meta plans to change its commercial terms in a way that matters to every company advertising or selling through its platforms.
By Pierluigi Paganini · securityaffairs.com
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