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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:
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 did not collect any personal information. Oink And Stuff did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company s privacy policy claims, Oink and Stuff is audited by Softpedia Labs as 100 per cent Clean, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.
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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 platform enforcement and litigation, Jessica Romero. She highlighted four extensions, Web for Instagram plus DM, Blue Messenger, Emoji keyboard and Green Messenger, that contained code which Facebook claims are malicious and effectively act like spyware.
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 policy that accompanied these extensions claimed that no collection of personal information would be performed.
Facebook Files Lawsuit Over Data Scraping in Portugal It involved browser extensions by Oink and Stuff The extensions contained hidden code that caused them to function like spyware bsd555/iStock January 14, 2021 Facebook and Facebook Ireland filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two individuals for scraping user profiles and other data from its website, calling their actions a violation of the social network’s terms of service, as well as Portugal’s Database Protection Law.
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.