Facebook Sues Devs of Alleged Data-Scraping Chrome Extensions

guest · Jan 16, 2021

Facebook Sues Devs of Alleged Data-Scraping Chrome Extensions
January 15, 2021
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/facebook-sues-devs-datascraping/

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.

“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,” argued Romero.
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Facebook is seeking a permanent injunction against the defendants, demanding they delete all Facebook data in their possession.

This is just one of many cases brought by the social network against third parties it accuses of impacting user privacy, a push that began in earnest following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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