Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Jon Brodkin reports: One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta sued Bright Data in Janua… Continue reading Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company

Chess.com Faces Second Data Leak: 476,000 Scraped User Records Leaked

By Waqas
The most recent data leak of Chess.com user records occurred on Friday, November 10th, 2023.
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Overcoming web scraping blocks: Best practices and considerations

By Owais Sultan
At its core, web scraping involves automatically extracting data from websites, enabling individuals and organizations to obtain valuable…
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Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

By Deeba Ahmed
Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used the same username and contact information on email and job portals.
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