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 ...

Facebook patches photo and name-scraping flaw Written by Tom Espiner, Contributor Aug. 17, 2010 at 8:20 a.m. PT Facebook has dealt with a bug in its login page that potentially exposed user's ...

How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At least, that’s ...

A leaked Facebook PR team memo shows how the company plans to deal with future leaks of user data. The memo said Facebook expected more "scraping" leaks and wants to "normalize the fact that this ...

Meta is suing a little-known company with ties to China for scraping people’s personal data on both Facebook and Instagram.. The legal dispute concerns a California-based company called Octopus ...

Facebook has disabled more than 66 accounts and profiles belonging to Russian data scraping firm SocialDataHub for what it termed the unauthorized collection of user information. "As part of our ...

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

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 is suing a little-known company with ties to China for scraping people’s personal data on both Facebook and Instagram. The legal dispute concerns a California-based company called Octopus ...