Facebook has filed a suit against two Ukrainian developers for creating Facebook apps and browser extensions that harvested user data and injected ads into users' timelines. . The two developers cited in a lawsuit Facebook filed late Friday, March 8, are named Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov, both based out of Kiev, and working for a company called the Web Sun Group. According to court documents, Sluchevsky and Gorbachov ran at least four web apps that provided quizzes on various topics. The web apps were advertised and shared on Facebook but they were hosted on a multitude of third-party websites such as megatest.online, supertest.name, testsuper.su, testsuper.net, fquiz.com, and funnytest.pro. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . Programmers taken to court by Meta for harvesting personal information via browser add-ons and surveys hosted on third-party platforms.. Facebook Data Scraping, Browser Extension Lawsuit, User Data Privacy Issues. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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