Security News > 2021 > January > Facebook Takes Legal Action Against Data Scrapers
Facebook on Thursday announced that it took legal action against two individuals for scraping data from its website.
In a lawsuit filed in Portugal, Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland seek permanent injunction against the two for violation of the social media platform's terms of service and Portugal's Database Protection Law.
Data harvested from the Facebook website includes name, user ID, gender, relationship status, and age group, along with other account information.
In addition to seeking a permanent injunction against the two individuals, the social media platform is demanding that they delete all of the Facebook data they harvested.
"This case is the result of our ongoing international efforts to detect and enforce against those who scrape Facebook users' data, including those who use browser extensions to compromise people's browsers," Facebook concludes.
Facebook previously took legal action against entities in the U.S., Israel and Ukraine over data scraping.