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In the OP press release they say: > It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it f
by TechBro8615 6y ago
In the OP press release they say:
> It is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019.
But if you click on the "related post" at the bottom of the page, "Taking Legal Action Against Data Scraping" (Oct 2020) [0], you'll see this sentence:
> Scraping is a form of data collection that relies on unauthorized automation for the purpose of extracting data from a website or app.
It would be interesting to hear Facebook PR team describe the difference between "Hacking" and "Unauthorized Automation", and why apparently the latter is nothing to worry about now, but was sufficient to generate lawsuits in October.
[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/taking-legal-action-against-data-scraping/ https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/taking-legal-action-agains...