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.

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

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 ...

The Hong Kong-based company Social Data Trading allegedly scraped data from Instagram and used the information for a paid analytics service, Instagram parent company Meta claims in a new lawsuit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...