Meta ties business-platform access to broad web-crawling rights for AI training
New commercial terms extend Meta’s data rights from its services to business customers’ associated websites.
Commercial terms due October 30 authorize Meta software to create credentials, crawl domains associated with business customers and use collected content to develop or train products. The clause covers customers using ads, catalogues, pages, groups and other business services; a legal scholar told The Register that stated robots.txt preferences are not in the contract, and Meta did not comment. For publishers dependent on Meta for audience and business tools, the change shifts control over machine access and training permissions toward the platform.