The email from an unnamed Facebook staffer reads, “Longer term, though, we expect more scraping incidents and think its important to both frame this as a broad industry issue and normalize the fact that this activity happens regularly.”
Facebook, which didn’t respond to CNET’s request for comment, has come under investigation by the EU’s privacy watchdog after it emerged that 533 million Facebooker users’ personal data had been scraped and published on a hacker website.