Sentences with phrase «scraped by third»

With a little coding know - how, you could use this script to repeatedly mangle all your Facebook posts over a period of several months, to make the bulk of Facebook's data on you virtually unusable (though it doesn't do anything for the data that's already been scraped by third - parties, like the kind Cambridge Analytica allegedly gained access to).

Facebook said on Wednesday that it believes most of its users could have had their public profile scraped by third parties.

After promising to unveil changes to make it easier for users to control their privacy, Facebook said recently that it would begin notifying users who may have had their data inappropriately scraped by a third - party app on the site.

In an interview with press on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he expects most of Facebook's users who had a specific search function enabled had their public data scraped by a third party.

Not exact matches

The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær, used data scraping software developed by a third contributor, Oliver Nordbjerg, to collect the information.

The data was collected by a third - party Facebook app that was capable of scraping information from a user's Facebook friends, allowing it to collect the information of people who did not use the app.

Facebook has admitted that «most» of its 2.2 billion users «could have had their public profile scraped» by third parties without their knowledge, and that the personal information of up to 87...

The ODPC says it is still unclear whether scraping of data by third party apps has posed actual harms or risks.

This web site is monitored for signs of third party scraping and any use of search facilities of data on the site, other than by potential buyers and sellers, is prohibited.