Meta is suing the U.S.-based subsidiary of a Chinese tech firm and one individual, which it accused of illegally scraping data from Facebook and Instagram.
“Today, we’ve filed separate actions in federal court against Octopus and Defendant Ekrem Ateş for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram,” a Meta representative said in a press statement on July 5.
Meta alleged that Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned corporation, sold services and software that allowed users to “scrape” data from its platforms.
Scraping Data
Scraping is a method of collecting massive amounts of data from the internet by automating bots to swiftly visit webpages and extract stored information from them….