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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 deferred ruling on the motion to dismiss counterclaims for violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (...
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. Facebook's Internal Memo Leak According to a report from the Belgian tech news site DataNews, which was posted on Apr. 20, Facebook's European, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) PR team "accidentally" sent the controversial internal memo to them. The report said that an alleged me...