Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data

Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by CivBase on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:40AM (#26079526)

As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users. There is no way Facebook could reasonably detect or combat that.

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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by cronix on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:15PM (#26080012)

I think you're confusing it with another recent FB event where they sued browser extension makers for scraping FB data.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-sues-two-chrome-exten...

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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:51AM (#26079651)

> As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users.

That is false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by CivBase on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:58AM (#26079771)

Nevermind. I thought it was a browser extension. I was not aware of the "Open Graph" platform. Thank you for the correction.

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