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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 software doesn’t collect any personal information. The extensions in question are Web for Instagram plus DM, Blue Messenger, Emoji keyboard and Green Messenger. Jessica Romero, Director of Platform Enforcement and Litigation, described the information being scraped: ....
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 the Facebook website, the browser extensions were programmed to scrape their name, user ID, gender, relationship status, age group and other information related to their account, Romero said. ....