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5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 t1_iy6oj2v wrote

Reply to comment by skydiver19 in Facebook Parent Meta Fined $276 Million in Europe for Data-Scraping Leak by bubblehack3r

  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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