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https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-files-lawsuit-against-alexander-alexandrovich-solonchenko-for-illegally-scraping-178-million-profilesSolonchenko allegedly then sold the information on a hacking forum. Attorneys for the social media company say the action violated Facebooks terms of service contract and is asking a court to issue injunctions against Solonchenko using Facebook products, further offering Facebook data for sale, as well as unspecified damages.
DeeNice
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(15,130 posts)Facebook wants to maintain the monetary value they get out of having so much personal data in bulk, in order to extract profit from analyzing and mining that data. Further, Facebook wants to monopolize that value.
They don't mind other people getting access to that same data in tiny dribs and drabs... which is exactly what happens when you use Facebook as a normal user and get the see all of the content other users make public.
What Facebook doesn't want you to do is create hundreds of accounts for yourself and have bots login in using those accounts to scrape up big, fat juicy piles of that same data, because it's only in bulk the that the real commercial value of that data emerges.
Nothing in this story sounds like it has anything to do with getting access to passwords.