Facebook has tentatively agreed to settle class-action claims that it violated Android users' privacy by scraping data about phone calls and texts from their devices, according to court records.

Meta has filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs, which it has accused of creating tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from more than 600,000 Facebook users' profiles. It says the ...

Ireland’s data privacy regulator imposed a $277 million fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it has fined parent group Meta to about $1.04 billion. The penalty resulted ...

Facebook's parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275 million) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

Irish regulators hit Meta with its third GDPR-related fine in less than two years, a further sign Europe's willing to follow through on regulatory threats. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Meta ...

Meta has been hit with a €265 million ($277 million) fine for failing to prevent millions of Facebook users' mobile phone numbers and other data from being scraped and dumped online, Independent.ie ...

Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive ...

A news story by Engadget reports that Meta brings a California-based firm that goes by the name Octopus Data to court over its web-scraping service, known as Octoparse. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned tech ...

Fantastic news for scrapers and for the law in general. LinkedIn vs HiQ was a famous case that went to the Supreme Court where the precedent clearly shows that you can't restrict public data without a ...

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 ...