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 ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

Meta Platforms has sued analytics company Voyager Labs, which works with law enforcement, for allegedly scraping data that users posted about themselves. Voyager “created and used over 38,000 fake ...

Facebook has tentatively agreed to settle class-action claims that it violated Android users' privacy by scraping data about phone calls and texts from their devices, according to court records.

Facebook's parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275 million) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive ...

Ireland’s data privacy regulator imposed a $277 million fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it has fined parent group Meta to about $1.04 billion. The penalty resulted ...

Meta has been hit with a €265 million ($277 million) fine for failing to prevent millions of Facebook users' mobile phone numbers and other data from being scraped and dumped online, Independent.ie ...

On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary judgment ruling with potentially wide-ranging ramifications for the ...

Apple Intelligence is upon us, but not every company that owns a major website is a fan of Apple scraping its data to train AI. A new report by Wired found that several widely recognizable online ...