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Facebook and its Irish subsidiary on Thursday announced the filing of a lawsuit in Portugal against two people for allegedly scraping Facebook profile data and other browser info using malicious Chrome extensions. Using the business name Oink And Stuff, the defendants developed browser extensions and made them available on the Chrome store, said Jessica Romero, director of platform enforcement and litigation for Facebook, in a blog post. They misled users into installing the extensions with a privacy policy that claimed they did not collect any personal information.
Oink And Stuff did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company s privacy policy claims, Oink and Stuff is audited by Softpedia Labs as 100 per cent Clean, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.
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