Social media firms urged to combat data scraping

Major social media firms Meta, ByteDance, Alphabet, Sina, Microsoft, and X, formerly known as Twitter, have been sought by a group of 12 nations, including Canada, Australia, and the UK, to stop the utilization of data scraping technologies increasingly exploited to obtain and process personal data that could later be leveraged in fraudulent activities and threat intelligence gathering efforts, ZDNET reports.

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