Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2019 13:54:50 GMT
Facebook sues over 'data-grabbing' quizzes (11 March 2019)
Malicious quiz apps were used to harvest thousands of users' profile data, according to Facebook.
The firm says anyone who wanted to take the quizzes was asked to install browser extensions, which then lifted data ranging from names and profile pictures to private lists of friends.
These were installed about 63,000 times between 2016 and October 2018, it says.
Facebook is suing Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, of Ukraine, who worked for a company called Web Sun Group.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524468
Malicious quiz apps were used to harvest thousands of users' profile data, according to Facebook.
The firm says anyone who wanted to take the quizzes was asked to install browser extensions, which then lifted data ranging from names and profile pictures to private lists of friends.
These were installed about 63,000 times between 2016 and October 2018, it says.
Facebook is suing Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, of Ukraine, who worked for a company called Web Sun Group.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524468