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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Analytics company BrandTotal and Meta Platforms agreed to resolve a two-year battle over BrandTotal's collection of data from Facebook and Instagram users, according to papers filed Friday with U.S.

A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other online sites, which are required ...