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 ...

Meta alleged that the startup Voyager Labs was improperly creating fake accounts and scaping user data. The lawsuit follows a similar, recently settled case between LinkedIn and enterprise startup hiQ ...

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 ...

Voyager Labs allegedly used the data alongside its own software, which the company claims can predict future criminal behavior. Voyager Labs allegedly used the data alongside its own software, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...