Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

And there's no opt-out available.

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 ...

Facebook has now released a public statement clarifying the cause of and addressing some of the concerns related to the recent data leak. As reported last week, information of about 533 million ...

Meta Platforms, Inc prosecuted Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co. Octopus Data allegedly offered data scraping ...

Web scraping is as old as the Internet, but it's a threat that rarely gets its due. Companies frequently underestimate its risk potential because it is technically not a "hack" or "breach." A recent ...