Embattled social media platform Parler is offline after Apple, Google and Amazon pulled the plug on the site after the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol last week that left five people dead. But while ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a call to reporters that users who had a specific search functionality turned on should "assume" that their public profile has been scraped. Facebook said ...

To fuel the rise of its app Flipagram, TikTok parent company Bytedance scraped profiles, videos, usernames and other content from Instagram and other social media platforms. Buzzfeed reported that the ...

Over a million Clubhouse users have had their personal data posted for free, Cyber News reported. The social media app, popular for its audio community, is the latest to have user records posted in a ...

In the latest example of a troubling industry pattern, NVIDIA appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. On Monday, 404 Media’s Samantha Cole reported that the $2.4 ...

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Not long after we learned that more than 500M accounts were scraped, exposing personal data from Facebook users, a report today says the same is true of LinkedIn and unnamed additional services. Some ...

Spotify was the target of an “unauthorised” third-party data scrape earlier this week, with activist group Anna’s Archive claiming to have accessed millions of music files. The group said it now plans ...

A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Zillow, among others -- without the users' ...

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been scraped and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was not ...