Published 1 year ago

Documents Show Meta Paid For Data Scraping Despite Years of Denouncing It

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Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it. The Facebook owner parted ways after learning of data misuse. Bright Data is countersuing Meta in a bid to keep scraping Facebook and Instagram. The EU fined Meta €265 million (about $277 million) last fall for allegedly failing to protect Facebook users.

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Engadget

Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it

Meta was paying a company to scrape data from sites for years despite its own attempts to fight the practice..

1 year ago·United States

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Documents Show Meta Paid For Data Scraping Despite Years of Denouncing It

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: 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 a former contractor, Bright Data, indicating tha...

1 year ago

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