Company scraping your data everywhere on the internet sues someone for scraping data on their part of the internet.
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I hope that the judge will require Facebook to stop scraping themselves first, before they request others to stop it, too.
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I hope that the judge will require Facebook to stop scraping themselves first, before they request others to stop it, too.
Apple does this too. Well, did - not sure if they still do.
This doesn't sound familiar. What case(s) are you referring to?
They were also caught a few years ago asking users to "verify their emails" by providing Facebook their email account password(2), after which FB's servers logged into the user's email account and scraped their contacts out without warning.
They also acquired a popular VPN app explicitly so they could comb through the users' traffic data and identify competing apps for acquisition.(3)
In my opinion it's core to how the company has always been. Facebook's predecessor, or perhaps first iteration, FaceMash, was a hot-or-not game based on student photos scraped from Harvard's internal websites(4).
[1] https://theoutline.com/post/4578/facebook-is-tracking-you-on...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485089/facebook-email-p...
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/
[4] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creat...
In the webpage case, the web developer is choosing to provide the user's data to Facebook or Google (without the user's consent). The vast majority of people don't even understand how this works and think that Facebook can only see activity performed on Facebook itself.
Why aren't developers in jail for this? Breaking into someone's email account and exfiltrating their data - disgusting. Clicking "OK" on a 500 page ToS doesn't get you out of this.
I'm so sick of this criminal behavior being brushed off as "growth hacking", "move fast and break things", or some other bullshit. The people creating this garbage should feel some shame and face real consequences.