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Facebook Suing Chrome Extension Makers For Spying On Users January 19, 2021 Facebook is suing the makers of four Chrome extensions, claiming the extensions are used to spy on users. Facebook, Inc. and Facebook Ireland filed a lawsuit againts two people behind the Portuguese business “Oink and Stuff.” Facebook alleges that the individuals have created four Chrome extensions that scrape information from a user’s Facebook profile, as well as from the information stored in their browser unrelated to Facebook. To make matters worse, the extensions’ privacy policy specifically claims the...
Not a machine-generated headline, we swear Share Copy 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 d...
Facebook is suing two European developers for allegedly violating its terms of service by scraping user data. Legal action has been filed in Portugal by Facebook and Facebook Ireland against two individuals working for application/extension development company Oink and Stuff. The firm claims its software products, available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera and Android, have over one million active users. However, the two misled users into downloading their Chrome extensions by claiming in a privacy policy that they did not collect any personal information, alleged Facebook director of platfor...
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 Store. The extensions were being offered using the business name “Oink and Stuff.” A privacy pol...