Security News > 2020 > November > None of our apps (except those 3) could secretly slurp Facebook user details, devs rage to High Court of England and Wales
Mobile app developers accused by Facebook of deploying "Malicious" SDKs to scrape users' data from the social network have hit back, telling London's High Court that nearly all their apps were "Not capable" of harvesting data from Facebook itself.
Haltas has now hit back, claiming that all but three of his apps couldn't possibly scrape data from Facebook because they didn't use the Login with Facebook feature.
Facebook's court filing also included the line: "Facebook's technical restrictions prevented MobiBurn from accessing any user data that the user had not authorised the app to obtain."
Whatever data was slurped from users came from their devices and not from Facebook, said Haltas, further saying in court filings: "The MobiBurn servers were not developed to collect Facebook data and were not capable of doing so," though he did admit that three Android apps could "Theoretically" have slurped data through the Login with Facebook feature combined with the Mobiburn SDKs. In his defence [PDF] Haltas said the SDKs were written by "Third party developers" and that he "Was not aware of the precise details of the work done by the third-party contractors".
Oak Smart, which described itself as a publisher of Facebook games, said Facebook had mistakenly sued because it had "No involvement in the Mobiburn business or any of the matters that form the basis of Facebook's claim".