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skydiver19 t1_iy6gghk wrote

Reply to comment by 5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 in Facebook Parent Meta Fined $276 Million in Europe for Data-Scraping Leak by bubblehack3r

Scraping data isn’t illegal, Google do it!

This issue here is Facebook failing to prevent stupid features from being abused despite multiple warnings and then not taking it serious

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5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 t1_iy6oj2v wrote

  1. it isn't illegal, altho depends on jurisdiction and data, but gl finding who is scraping your site.

  2. It's not a "feature", someone is literally scraping data from public profiles. It's not permissible by any of their products lol. They DO shit about this already - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/03/meta-settles-lawsuit-for-significant-sum-against-businesses-scraping-facebook-and-instagram-data/

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skydiver19 t1_iy7ofya wrote

Isn’t the fine in relation to the 500m data leak which had phone numbers? If so this was a result of a couple of features where you could generate all the permutations of mobile phone numbers and then pump them though they website leveraging a feature to return the user id thus linking the phone to the user Id

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5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 t1_iy8w4f6 wrote

Not this one specifically, that one is due to not telling people their profiles would be public if they switched to creator mode or w/e it is

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