Meta sues ‘surveillance service’ for creating fake accounts and scraping user data

Meta has filed a legal action against a surveillance service which it accused of creating fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook for the purpose of scraping user data.

Voyager Labs “improperly collected data from Facebook, Instagram and other websites,” the social media giant alleged on Thursday.

The company “developed and used proprietary software to launch scraping campaigns” that targeted users Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Telegram in addition to Meta’s own services, the social media giant said.

Voyager Labs’ software used …

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