Meta sues surveillance company over allegedly scraping more 600,000.
Voyager Labs has been sued by the plaintiff, who claims that it created tens of thousand of fake accounts. scrape data More than 600,000. users’ profiles. According to Meta, the surveillance company took information like posts, likes. friend lists. Photos and comments. Meta claims Voyager has masked its activity with its Surveillance Software and that the company also scraped data. Telegram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and LinkedIn to license and sell for profit
In The following was obtained by Meta asked a judge for a permanent ban on Voyager’s use of Instagram and Facebook. “As a direct result of Defendant’s unlawful actions, Meta has suffered and continues to suffer irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law, and which will continue unless Defendant’s actions are enjoined,” the filing reads. Meta claimed Voyager’s actions caused it to “incur damages, including investigative expenses, in an amount that will be proved at trial.”
Meta asserts that Voyager stole data from accounts belonging “employees at non-profit organizations and universities, news media organisations, healthcare facilities and the armed forces in the United States as well as full-time parents and retirees as well as union members.” The company stated It blocked Voyager accounts, and it filed the suit to enforce terms and policies.
“Companies like Voyager belong to an industry that offers scraping services to anybody regardless of who they target or for what purpose,” Jessica Romero wrote, Meta’s director, platform enforcement, and litigation. “This industry covertly collects information that people share with their community, family and friends, without oversight or accountability, and in a way that may implicate people’s civil rights.”
In 2021 According to reports, the Los Angeles Police Department tested Voyager’s social surveillance tools in 2019. According to the report, the company informed the department that they could use the software for tracking suspect’s social media friends and that it could also predict crime before it occurs by making assumptions about an individual’s activities.
According to The GuardianVoyager suggests that Instagram usernames that denote Arab pride or tweeting Islam could be signs someone is inclined to extremism. You can find them at , who have been involved in predictive policing technology. Like the They claim that technology can’t predict crime, and that algorithms only make it possible .
Meta must take data scraping seriously. It will become a major issue in 2021. sued an individual For allegedly scraping data about more than 178 million users. Last November, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined the company €265 million ($277 million) for failing to stop bad actors from obtaining millions of people’s phone numbers and other data, which were published elsewhere online. Meta was not in compliance with GDPR data privacy rules, the regulator stated.