Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey To Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company
Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey To Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company
Facebook、Instagram 成爲數據抓取的犧牲品；起訴中國公司
- Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) prosecuted Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co.
- Octopus Data allegedly offered data scraping services for Facebook and Instagram.
- Meta also prosecuted a Turkey-based individual, Ekrem Ateş, for allegedly setting up automated Instagram accounts to scrape data from 350,000 Instagram users.
- Also Read: Ireland Watchdog Initiates Facebook Probe After Data Leak Reports: Reuters
- Octopus allegedly charges its customers to access a software product called Octoparse to launch scraping attacks. Customers could also pay Octopus to scrape websites directly.
- Customers had to give access to their accounts, allowing the software to glean data usually only available to logged-in users, including Facebook friends, email addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, and Instagram followers.
- Octoparse is not limited to Meta's properties, either, with services offered across numerous sites, including Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) LinkedIn.
- The case follows less than three months after a U.S. court reaffirmed an earlier ruling that web-scraping is legal, TechCrunch reports.
- The verdict followed a long-standing legal battle between LinkedIn and a data science company, Hiq Labs, which scraped personal information from LinkedIn to help its customers predict employee attrition.
- Previously, a Chinese software developer sifted Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (NYSE: BABA) Taobao shopping website for eight months and secretly collected over 1.1 billion pieces of user information.
- Price Action: META shares traded lower by 0.36% at $167.58 in the premarket on the last check Wednesday.
- Photo by StockSnap from Pixabay
- Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) prosecuted Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co.
- Octopus Data allegedly offered data scraping services for Facebook and Instagram.
- Meta also prosecuted a Turkey-based individual, Ekrem Ateş, for allegedly setting up automated Instagram accounts to scrape data from 350,000 Instagram users.
- Also Read: Ireland Watchdog Initiates Facebook Probe After Data Leak Reports: Reuters
- Octopus allegedly charges its customers to access a software product called Octoparse to launch scraping attacks. Customers could also pay Octopus to scrape websites directly.
- Customers had to give access to their accounts, allowing the software to glean data usually only available to logged-in users, including Facebook friends, email addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, and Instagram followers.
- Octoparse is not limited to Meta's properties, either, with services offered across numerous sites, including Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) LinkedIn.
- The case follows less than three months after a U.S. court reaffirmed an earlier ruling that web-scraping is legal, TechCrunch reports.
- The verdict followed a long-standing legal battle between LinkedIn and a data science company, Hiq Labs, which scraped personal information from LinkedIn to help its customers predict employee attrition.
- Previously, a Chinese software developer sifted Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (NYSE: BABA) Taobao shopping website for eight months and secretly collected over 1.1 billion pieces of user information.
- Price Action: META shares traded lower by 0.36% at $167.58 in the premarket on the last check Wednesday.
- Photo by StockSnap from Pixabay
- Meta 平台有限公司納斯達克股票代碼：META）起訴了中國國家高新技術企業深圳視訊信息技術有限公司的美國子公司Octopus Data。
- 據稱，Octopus Data 爲 Facebook 和 Instagram 提供了數據
- Meta 還起訴了一名居住在土耳其的個人埃克雷姆·阿特什，罪名是他涉嫌開設自動的 Instagram 賬戶來從 350,000 名 Instagram 用戶那裏竊取數據。
- 另請閱讀： 愛爾蘭監管機構在數據泄露報告後啓動Facebook調查：路透社
- 據稱，Octoparse向其客戶收取訪問名爲Octoparse的軟件產品以發起抓取攻擊的費用。客戶也可以向八達通付款，直接抓取網站。
- 客戶必須授予訪問其帳戶的權限，從而允許該軟件收集通常只有登錄用戶才能獲得的數據，包括Facebook朋友、電子郵件地址、出生日期、電話號碼和Instagram關注者。
- Octoparse 也不侷限於 Meta 的財產，其服務遍佈衆多網站，包括推特公司（紐約證券交易所代碼：TWTR），字母表公司（納斯達克股票代碼：GOOG）（納斯達克股票代碼：GOOGL）YouTube，亞馬遜公司（納斯達克股票代碼：AMZN），微軟公司（納斯達克股票代碼：MSFT）領英。
- TechCrunch報道，該案是在美國法院重申先前關於網絡抓取合法的裁決不到三個月後發生的。
- 該判決是在LinkedIn與一家數據科學公司Hiq Labs進行了長期的法律鬥爭之後作出的，該公司從LinkedIn竊取了個人信息，以幫助其客戶預測員工流失。
- 此前，一位中國軟件開發人員進行了篩選阿里巴巴集團控股有限公司(NYSE: BABA) 淘寶購物網站長達八個月，祕密收集了超過11億條用戶信息。
- 價格走勢：週三最後一次盤前，META股價下跌0.36％，至167.58美元。
- 照片由 Pixabay 的 StockSnap
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