Facebook Is Suing Two Developers It Says Sold Fake Likes And Scraped User Data
It’s the latest example of Facebook suing people it says have abused its platform.
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It’s the latest example of Facebook suing people it says have abused its platform.
It’s the latest example of Facebook suing people it says have abused its platform.
Image: Kon Karampelas Facebook filed a lawsuit today in Portugal against two Portuguese nationals for developing browser extensions that scraped user data from Facebook sites. "When people installed these extensions on their browsers, they were installing concealed code designed to scrape their information from the Facebook website, but also information from the users' browsers unrelated to Facebook — all without their knowledge," Jessica Romero, Facebook's Director of Platform Enforcement and Litigation, said today. "If the user visited t...