Morever, Archibong stated that Facebook file legal action against app developers when necessary.
In May, the social media giant sued Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics firm, for failing to cooperate with its investigation and to delete data obtained from its platform.
Facebook also filed a lawsuit against LionMobi and JediMobi for allegedly using its apps to infect uses’ phones with malware to generate profits illegally. “This lawsuit is one of the first of its kind against this practice. We detected the fraud, stopped the abuse and refunded advertisers,” said Archibong.
Two Ukrainian men named Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov were also sued by the social media giant. The defendants allegedly used quiz apps to scrape users’ data from Facebook.
