After sitting silently for the first week of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has moved into damage limitation mode. Since the issue refused to go away Mark Zuckerberg has wheeled ...

Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your ...

Facebook Inc. filed a lawsuit Friday against two Ukrainian developers who allegedly created Facebook apps and browser extensions that scrapped user data and injected third-party ads. The accused, Gleb ...

Facebook filed a lawsuit today in Portugal against two Portuguese nationals for developing browser extensions that scraped user data from Facebook sites. "When people installed these extensions on ...

Facebook has sued two Chrome devs for scraping user profile data – including names, user IDs and more. Facebook has filed legal action against two Chrome extension developers that the company said was ...

A hacker has exploited Facebook’s Graph Search to collect a database of thousands of phone numbers and Facebook users. Both parties agree that all the information was left public by users (even if the ...

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Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook's website and from users' systems without ...

Facebook announced a second wave of actions against spam. Facebook is targeting promotional posts that link to low quality ad farms that copy content from other sites. The announcement of this action ...

A European advocacy group filed complaints in 11 countries over a new Meta AI policy. NOYB, or None of Your Business, said Meta's new policy would let it scrape user data to train AI. Unlike American ...

Following the discovery of a data set of Facebook user personal data available on the Internet, the European Union's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has found Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (MPIL) in ...