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 ...
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Instagram has banned one of its owner Facebook’s official marketing partners, San Francisco-based HYP3R, after “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight” on its behalf allowed HYP3R to ...
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, ...
Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your feed, a ...
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 ...
A news story by Engadget reports that Meta brings a California-based firm that goes by the name Octopus Data to court over its web-scraping service, known as Octoparse. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned tech ...
TikTok's parent company ByteDance made fake accounts with content taken from Instagram, Snapchat and other social media platforms and posted them on Flipagram in 2017, according to a new report today ...
FILE - This March 20, 2018 file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. YouTube is demanding that a facial recognition company that works with police stop harvesting its videos to ...