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 ...

In a blog post, Facebook has highlighted its efforts in preventing data misuse and unauthorized scraping. It aims to block illegal scraping at scale without compromising on the platform's features.

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...

“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 ...