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Meta fined €265M in the fb data scraping case

Name: Meta fined €265M in the fb data scraping case
Uploaded: 2022-12-30T10:33:32+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Caitlin Sarian
Description: Meta was fined €265 million for scraping Facebook user data without consent. The video explains how scrapers import website data, the difference between…

30 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Meta was fined €265 million for scraping Facebook user data without consent. The video explains how scrapers import website data, the difference between public and private content, and how to check what information about you is visible to strangers.

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€265 million

December 30, 2022

Caitlin Sarian

A process of importing website data into files.

See if you can access/search it in incognito mode (if it prompts you to log in, it's private).

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Meta was fined 265 million euros in the Facebook data scraping case. So what's data scraping? Data scraping, or web scraping, is a process of importing websites data into files. The issue really comes when it's public versus private data. Now, a lot of people may argue that anything that we post online is public, but that is not necessarily true, especially if your profiles are set to private. Now, scraping publicly available data is legal, and there's no laws prohibiting this, but it gets very tricky when we're talking about private data. Public data is any data, information or text available on a website that does not require you to log in. And according to ScrapeHero.com, a way to tell if a data is public or private is to see if you can search it on incognito mode. Some examples of private data are private Facebook accounts or private posts. Facebook private groups. You get it. If the website you're trying to find prompts you to log in, then it's private like and follow for more cybersecurity tips and comment below with what you think.