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Internal email reveals Facebook's plan to 'normalise' data scraping Events About If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in. If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team. The company intends to deflect criticism by framing scraping as a broader industry issue Internal email reveals Facebook's plan to 'normalise' data scraping 's intent to label data scraping incidents as a 'normalised, broad industry issue '. Data News, a Facebook representative gave details of the firm 's lon...

Facebook has now admitted that it expects more breaches of data to happen “regularly.” The comments from the social media network originate from an internal email that was accidentally sent to Belgium’s  Data News which addressed employees on a recent data breach involving more than half a billion users. Noting that the media has largely criticized the company over the security breach, it suggested under a segment titled “Long-term strategy” that it expects more of these incidents to occur in the future. It also goes further, saying that “it’s important to both frame this as a...

BBC News Published has revealed its strategy for dealing with the leaking of account details from 533 million users. It suggests the social network expected more such incidents and was planning to frame it as an industry problem that was a normal occurrence. It also said the media attention would die down. As a result it planned to issue limited statements about the issue. Facebook confirmed the memo was genuine and told the BBC: "We understand people's concerns, which is why we continue to strengthen our systems to make scraping from Facebook without our permission more difficult and go aft...

Facebook Wants to ‘Normalize’ Its Data Scraping Leaks 6 days ago Facebook is looking to take the heat off itself for the recent leak of 533 million records scraped from its site by normalizing that type of incident. Scraping involves pulling data from a target website, often using automated means. In most cases, it’s not technically a major hack since the data is available on the site. However, many membership-based sites, such as Facebook, can take measures to prevent scraping. In the case of Facebook’s issue that led to 533 million records being scraped and later released online,...

Secure data storage Zuckerberg promised end-to-end encryption for all of its messaging services, which will be combined in a way that allows users to communicate across WhatsApp, Instagram Direct, and Facebook Messenger. December 2018: Facebook comes under fire after a bombshell report discovered the firm allowed over 150 companies, including Netflix, Spotify and Bing, to access unprecedented amounts of user data, such as private messages. Some of these 'partners' had the ability to read, write, and delete Facebook users' private messages and to see all participants on a thread.  It also al...