Mass Data Scraping Lawsuit Filed by Meta

As part of a lawsuit filed against the digital surveillance firm Voyager Labs, Meta claims that the company created 38,000 fake, unauthorized accounts to collect 600,000 Facebook users’ personal information. 

A federal lawsuit filed by Microsoft has asked a California court for Voyager to be banned from Facebook and Instagram, claiming that the company scraped the “viewable profile information” of Facebook and Instagram users. They claim the company scraped posts, likes, friend lists, photos, and comments from Facebook and Instagram users. It has been reported that Facebook groups and pages were allegedly tapped for data. 

After the company approached companies interested in monitoring social media without being detected, Voyager sold the company’s tool to the highest bidder, according to Gizmodo. 

In addition, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Telegram accounts were created to scrape data. So far, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is the only social media firm that has taken legal action against Voyager. 

The company wrote in a blog post about the legal filing. It said that Voyager had violated Facebook’s terms of service regarding fake accounts and automated scraping and automa

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