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 ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

An internal email sent in error to a Belgian journalist describes Facebook's strategy for changing the narrative about data scraping ahead of further incidents. Katie ...

Facebook has filed a lawsuit today against two companies for creating and distributing malicious browser extensions that scraped user data without authorization from the Facebook and Instagram ...

Facebook hasn't yet woken up from the ongoing PR nightmare brought on by Cambridge Analytica, and it may already be facing yet another: an Ars Technica investigation found that Facebook collected and ...

Analytics company BrandTotal and Facebook parent Meta have not been able to resolve their battle over data collection, the companies told a federal judge on Friday. Facebook maintains that it is ...

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, ...

After sitting silently for the first week of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has moved into damage limitation mode. Since the issue refused to go away Mark Zuckerberg has wheeled ...

Facebook on Sunday confirmed that its Messenger and Lite apps for Android smartphones routinely collect call and text histories. The call and text history logging are opt-in features for people using ...

The emails show Facebook’s growth team looking to call log data as a way to improve Facebook’s algorithms as well as to locate new contacts through the “People You May Know” feature. Notably, the ...

Facebook is launching a review of all its "Facebook Marketing Partners," a group of more than 600 marketing and advertising firms bearing the social network's official seal of approval, amid ...

Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, which the startup ...