Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum 5 years ago
“The traders claim to have obtained the data by scraping rather than hacking or compromising individual users’ accounts.”
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The full headline is “Facebook paid billions extra to the FTC to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege”. This is just an allegation.
This is answered in the article:
Facebook said all the data collected remained on users' phones not servers.
A Huawei spokesperson said: "Like all leading smartphone providers, Huawei has worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users. Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data."
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Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments 6 years ago
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