If you’ve been on the Facebook cruise ship for a while, you‘ve likely accumulated what we call Facebook barnacles on your profile. Facebook barnacles are those apps that latched onto your profile when ...

Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your ...

Meta is ordered to pay a hefty fee after the personal data of an estimated 500 million Facebook users was harvested and posted to a hacking forum, according to a Law360 report. The parent company of ...

The company allegedly took that data and sold it to clients promising them powerful social media surveillance of potential targets. Reading time 3 minutes Meta, the company previously known as ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Voyager Labs allegedly used the data alongside its own software, which the company claims can predict future ...

A European advocacy group filed complaints in 11 countries over a new Meta AI policy. NOYB, or None of Your Business, said Meta's new policy would let it scrape user data to train AI. Unlike American ...

Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook's website and from users' systems without ...

Facebook has sued two Chrome devs for scraping user profile data – including names, user IDs and more. Facebook has filed legal action against two Chrome extension developers that the company said was ...