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Facebook Sues Over 'Data-Grabbing' Quizzes (bbc.com)
Facebook is suing Andrew Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, of Ukraine, who worked for a company called Web Sun Group that developed "data-grabbing" quizzes for its social media site. The malicious quiz apps were used to harvest thousands of users' profile data. "The firm says anyone who wanted to take the quizzes was asked to install browser extensions, which then lifted data ranging from names and profile pictures to private lists of friends," reports the BBC. "These were installed about 63,000 times between 2016 and October 2018, it says." From the report: The quizzes, with titles such as "What does your eye color say about you?" and "Do people love you for your intelligence or your beauty?", gained access to this information via the Facebook Login system -- which enables connections between third party apps and Facebook profiles. While the system is intended to verify that such connections are secure, in this case, Facebook says, users were falsely told the app would retrieve only a limited amount of public data from their profiles. "In total, defendants compromised approximately 63,000 browsers used by Facebook users and caused over $75,000 in damages to Facebook," the company said in court documents first published by online news site The Daily Beast. The documents accuse the two men of breaking US laws against computer hacking as well as breaching Facebook's own terms of use.
...bashing in Girlscouts-Cookie-Squad, "get off our turf"...
This is just too funny! Facebook, one of the biggest data grabbing sites on earth suing someone over what Facebook itself does!!!!!
Facebook angry at its developers who used the system they designed to its full extent? Surprised? Is this not like Dr. Jekyll yelling at Mr. Hyde for things that the split personality does at night?
"Why are you letting people take advantage of our users' personal information??"
"You said we could do that!!"
"No I didn't!"
"Yes you did!"
"I didn't mean it!"
This is ridiculous, and an attempt to shift blame from the rotten core.
this has to stop. ban all vpns. ban all anonymous. ban all usenet. its time to wash the hate from the earth. this has gone on long enough.
All that work to induce you to give them all your info and it boils down to $0.84.
oh fucker turd, you so funny
If you're going to steal eighty four cents, at least take the quarters with your favorite state designs
Seize their assets.
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How many other Apps are grabbing the data?
Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?
OR the real crime here is that they grabbed the data without becoming "an official partner" of Facebook providing its users with "new and exciting services and products" who pay the required tribute to Facebook and share the spoils?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I didn't bother to do a spell check but your diction deems perfectly fine you lazy impolite poorly dressed show off
Anyone else doing that is "unfair competition"...
Corporatism != Free Market
I guess that question answered itself.
Yeah Facebook says it puts their users first but it doesn't even do the smallest amount of preventative work to keep their data safe. The users should not sleep well at night knowing these eventualities are left to chance. Clearly nothing has changed or will change with these jerk offs
So they sue.
Don't get between facebook and our data.
I'd have said my data was worth a solid fiver, but what do I know?
Seriously, the answer is "Neither"
Facebook didn't think of it first. So now they want to sue the company out of existence then use their tech for free
Bill got caught lying 12-25 times repeatedly stating "Blood plasma is sterile" and then later that "The Chinese Govt does not directly censor Chinese citizens" and other absolute bullshit head-in-ass retard-level lies. You're not trustworthy.
You are not a source of information that anyone should or even could trust, knowing your dishonest history. Sorry. That's what accountability means when you get caught lying repeatedly, over and over, even after directly corrected.
You're a liar, Bill.
That is their business model. Thing is they have got to be broken up, along with Google, Apple, Twitter, etc.
Corporatism != Free Market
Used in a sentence : "Neither" Ivanka nor Jared will escape federal prison's lunch-line rape gangs. "Neither."
"ulp.."
"Treason-sauce? What's that?"
Never. Never ask.
Oh fuck off.
So only the perpetually stupid would not see this for the deflection trick that it is. Facebook was designed for exactly how this vendor was using it...and its been going on for what, 10 years now.
Watch *this* hand, not the one picking your pocket.
So they're suing somebody who used APIs they created that specifically enable snarfing up this kind of data? If FB had a problem with this, why the hell did they enable it in the first place?
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$75,000 of information that Facebook collected and was going to sell, but these damn quiz apps beat them to the punch!
Bullshit, we can point to posts made by you, that both praise Trump and others from you that belittle Trump. how would anyone know which AC post of yours is really yours? If you want anyone to be willing to "admit you were right", you'd have to put your freaking name out there so your posts can be linked to you. Until then, eat shit.