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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has sued Hong Kong based Social Data Trading Ltd. for scraping data from millions of Instagram and Facebook profiles. The company continued to surreptitiously pull profile information from both websites.

Tech companies were among the most affected industries during the second COVID wave. From factories shut down to supply chain constraints, the pandemic majorly hit the technology world especially the smartphone and automobile industry. Taking this into consideration, tech giants such as Apple, Meta, Google, among others have already announced actions they are taking to combat the spread of the new COVID-19 variant.

Campaigners say NHS Digital will potentially share sensitive personal health information from GP records with third parties.

hiQ LinkedIn Data Scraping CFAA Ruling Delayed Pending SCOTUS Decision Monday, April 26, 2021 As readers of CPW know, data scraping is a hot button data privacy issue.  We previously covered the hiQ/LinkedIn data-scraping saga HERE, and HERE.  In the most recent ruling out of the Northern District of California, Judge Chen denied hiQ’s motion to dismiss LinkedIn’s counterclaims for breach of contract, misappropriation, and trespass to chattels.  Additionally, the Court deferr...

20 April 2021, 01:04 pm 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 data had been compromised, including Facebook IDs, full names, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Facebooks Internal Memo Leak According to a report from the Belgian tech news site DataNews, which was posted on Apr. 20, Facebooks European, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) PR te...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/510330.html (Natural News) A spokesperson for Facebook revealed that the tech giant did not notify the more than 500 million users whose personal data was stolen and distributed online. The spokesperson also said that the tech giant currently has no plans of ever informing them of the privacy breach. The social media firm chose not to notify affected users because it doubted it could identify which users needed to be notified, the spokesman said. The tech ...

Read more about What is scraping and how it was used to breach data at Facebook, LinkedIn on Business Standard. Facebook has previously filed cases against companies that have developed tools to scrape its user data; LinkedIn also said scraping violates its terms of service

Updated: February 10, 2021 11:47 IST The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge Share Article AAA U.S.-style "opt-out" data privacy class actions, which bind a defined group automatically into a lawsuit unless individuals opt out, are still unusual in Britain.   | Photo Credit: Reuters The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their ...

By Ionut Arghire on January 15, 2021 Facebook on Thursday announced that it took legal action against two individuals for scraping data from its website. In a lawsuit filed in Portugal, Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland seek permanent injunction against the two for violation of the social media platform’s terms of service and Portugal’s Database Protection Law. The social media giant says that the two created browser extensions that they made available for download through the Chrome Web ...

Policy note on reforming sales tax launched Peshawar December 24, 2020 PESHAWAR: The Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) in collaboration with the International Growth Centre (IGC), Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) and the provincial government launched a policy note on ‘Reforming Sales Tax on Services in Khyber Pakht-unkhwa’ through a webinar. The note presents a framework for reforming Sales Tax on Services (STS) in the province through the Khyber Pakhtun...