Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

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 ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Analytics company BrandTotal and Facebook parent Meta have not been able to resolve their battle over data collection, the companies told a federal judge on Friday. Facebook maintains that it is ...

Facebook has filed a lawsuit today against two companies for creating and distributing malicious browser extensions that scraped user data without authorization from the Facebook and Instagram ...

“Facebook has learned that defendants continue to access and scrape data from password-protected locations of Facebook’s platform, notwithstanding Facebook’s revocation of defendants’ access to its ...

Facebook is looking to "normalize" data leaks and frame the recent data scraping controversy as a "broad industry issue." The news comes after Facebook once again came under fire as 533 million user ...