Facebook files lawsuit against two companies for web scraping from its main app & Instagram
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Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two companies that scraped data from its main app, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Amazon to sell "marketing intelligence" and other services in a global operation. Scraping is a form of data collection that relies on unauthorised automation for the purpose of extracting data from a website or app.