Facebook said on Friday it had sued a data analysis firm in South Korea for violating company developer data policies and refusing to undergo mandatory review.
The company, which has the largest social networking network in the world, said in a statement: It filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California state court after investigating misuse of its data "with regard to advertising and marketing services."
Facebook said Rankwave refused to cooperate with it when it sought to review and audit with the South Korean group, a mandatory process for all developers using its platform.
"By filing a lawsuit, we are sending a message to developers that Facebook is serious about implementing our policies, including asking developers to cooperate with us during the investigation," Jessica Romero, Facebook's system administrator and litigation officer, said in a statement.
Facebook has sought to tighten control over how external developers used its data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The British political consulting firm misinformed the personal information of 87 million Facebook users via third parties.
According to a court report released on Friday, Rankwave has since 2014 used its Facebook data for its own "commercial purposes", including providing advisory services to advertisers and marketers, contrary to Facebook's policies.
"Rankwave has also damaged the reputation of Facebook, its trust among the public, its goodwill, and Facebook's spending on resources to investigate and handle the wrong Rankwave behavior," Facebook said.
She also said that "Rankwave" unfairly earned $ 9.8 million, using Facebook data. The company said it wanted the court to "implement the basic terms of cooperation" agreed by "Rankwave" in order to run applications on the Facebook platform.
It also demanded unspecified compensation for Facebook and sought to regain what it earned from "Rankwave" from its use of Facebook data.
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