PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 20: In this photo illustration, the logos of social media applications, Facebook and Instagram are displayed on the screen of an iPhone on February 20, 2023 in Paris, France.

Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Facebook's parent company Meta has announced that it's suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, accusing it of offering data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram. The social ...

Meta is suing a little-known company with ties to China for scraping people’s personal data on both Facebook and Instagram. The legal dispute concerns a California-based company called Octopus Data, ...