Facebook Sues Porn Site for scraping

Takes action against spidering to protect users

The popular social networking website Facebook has filed a lawsuit against a Canadian company for "unauthorized attempts to access and harvest proprietary information" - Scraping that is.

On more than 200,000 occasions during a two-week period it is said that the Canadian porn company Istra Holdings harvested information from the Facebook site with the help of automated spidering and scraping tools. Read more about the the scraping lawsuit at NewsFactor.

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