Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey To Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company
Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey To Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company
Facebook、Instagram 成为数据抓取的牺牲品；起诉中国公司
- 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 平台有限公司纳斯达克股票代码：META）起诉了中国国家高新技术企业深圳视讯信息技术有限公司的美国子公司Octopus Data。
- 据称，Octopus Data 为 Facebook 和 Instagram 提供了数据
- Meta 还起诉了一名居住在土耳其的个人埃克雷姆·阿特什，罪名是他涉嫌开设自动的 Instagram 账户来从 350,000 名 Instagram 用户那里窃取数据。
- 另请阅读： 爱尔兰监管机构在数据泄露报告后启动Facebook调查：路透社
- 据称，Octoparse向其客户收取访问名为Octoparse的软件产品以发起抓取攻击的费用。客户也可以向八达通付款，直接抓取网站。
- 客户必须授予访问其帐户的权限，从而允许该软件收集通常只有登录用户才能获得的数据，包括Facebook朋友、电子邮件地址、出生日期、电话号码和Instagram关注者。
- Octoparse 也不局限于 Meta 的财产，其服务遍布众多网站，包括推特公司（纽约证券交易所代码：TWTR），字母表公司（纳斯达克股票代码：GOOG）（纳斯达克股票代码：GOOGL）YouTube，亚马逊公司（纳斯达克股票代码：AMZN），微软公司（纳斯达克股票代码：MSFT）领英。
- TechCrunch报道，该案是在美国法院重申先前关于网络抓取合法的裁决不到三个月后发生的。
- 该判决是在LinkedIn与一家数据科学公司Hiq Labs进行了长期的法律斗争之后作出的，该公司从LinkedIn窃取了个人信息，以帮助其客户预测员工流失。
- 此前，一位中国软件开发人员进行了筛选阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司(NYSE: BABA) 淘宝购物网站长达八个月，秘密收集了超过11亿条用户信息。
- 价格走势：周三最后一次盘前，META股价下跌0.36％，至167.58美元。
- 照片由 Pixabay 的 StockSnap
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