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 ...

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 has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...

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 ...