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.

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 ...

Meta has filed a legal complaint against a company for allegedly creating tens of thousands of fake Facebook accounts to scrape user data and provide surveillance services for clients. The firm ...

mass data scraping events can constitute data breaches and in turn trigger reporting obligations. In 2021, for example, over a billion users' data from LinkedIn and Facebook was scraped and leaked ...

Scraping data from the internet isn't a new thing ... from scraping their sites for training purposes. These include Facebook and Instagram, meaning that none of your personal posts will be ...

Meta has filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs, which it has accused of creating tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from more than 600,000 Facebook users' profiles. It says the ...

Facebook users can now join a data protection lawsuit that the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) has filed against Meta after millions of data records containing personal data ...

Data scraping isn't new—in fact, some suggest the practice may be almost as old as the World Wide Web itself. Over the years, it's taken many forms, from manual data collecting and mining to ...

Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry. The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU ...