PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 20: In this photo illustration, the logos of social media applications, Facebook and Instagram are displayed on the screen of an iPhone on February 20, 2023 in Paris, France.

Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your feed, a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Meta announced yesterday that it is pursuing legal action against a ...

Meta has filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs, which it has accused of creating tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from more than 600,000 Facebook users' profiles. It says the ...

In a lawsuit from 2023, Meta said Voyager Labs created more than 38,000 fake accounts to scrape data for its investigative software, which is used by law enforcement. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal ...

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Facebook's parent company Meta has announced that it's suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, accusing it of offering data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram. The social ...

Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for ...

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A news story by Engadget reports that Meta brings a California-based firm that goes by the name Octopus Data to court over its web-scraping service, known as Octoparse. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned tech ...

Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive ...