We review the factual background necessary to determining whether Power Ventures access was unauthorized.
The first step is to see how Power Ventures intended to make money. It did not charge the users who signed up with it, so where was the money going go come from?
From collecting and selling data. “When a Facebook user directs Power.com to access the Facebook website, an unauthorized copy of the user’s profile page is created.”
Aggregating the information in the profiles would create economically valuable information.