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The memo was made public by Belgian publication
Data News on April 8. It has ostensibly meant to be seen only by Facebook’s PR staff in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The data breach, which involved data from users across 106 countries, occurred back in 2019. But the database, a treasure trove of personal information, was only freely published this year.
Facebook downplays scraping as a normal occurrence within the industry
The leaked memo indicates that Facebook expected the problem and planned to frame it as an industry problem that was a normal occurrence.
“In the long term we expect more scraping incidents and it is important to frame this as a sector problem and normalize that this happens regularly,” the memo reads.
Internal email reveals Facebook s plan to normalise data scraping
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The company intends to deflect criticism by framing scraping as a broader industry issue
Internal email reveals Facebook s plan to normalise data scraping s intent to label data scraping incidents as a normalised, broad industry issue .
Data News, a Facebook representative gave details of the firm s long-term strategy for dealing with the data scraping issue.
BBC News
Published has revealed its strategy for dealing with the leaking of account details from 533 million users.
It suggests the social network expected more such incidents and was planning to frame it as an industry problem that was a normal occurrence.
It also said the media attention would die down.
As a result it planned to issue limited statements about the issue.
Facebook confirmed the memo was genuine and told the BBC: We understand people s concerns, which is why we continue to strengthen our systems to make scraping from Facebook without our permission more difficult and go after the people behind it.
Facebook Wants to ‘Normalize’ Its Data Scraping Leaks
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Facebook is looking to take the heat off itself for the recent leak of 533 million records scraped from its site by normalizing that type of incident.
Scraping involves pulling data from a target website, often using automated means. In most cases, it’s not technically a major hack since the data is available on the site. However, many membership-based sites, such as Facebook, can take measures to prevent scraping.
In the case of Facebook’s issue that led to 533 million records being scraped and later released online, it was the result of a vulnerability that allowed the data to be scraped. Facebook was widely criticized for its response, essentially taking the approach that since this was an old issue, it wasn’t a big deal despite the fact the data was just released into the wild.