Meta Filed Actions Against Co. and Individual for Scraping Data

Meta Platforms Inc. has filed actions in in federal court against a company and an individual for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram.

• First action is against a company called Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise that claims to have over one million customers
  • Suit alleges Octopus engaged in unauthorized and automated scraping and attempting to conceal their scraping and avoid being detected and blocked from Facebook and Instagram
  • Meta seeks permanent injunction against Octopus
• Meta also filed action against Turkish-based individual, Ekrem Ateş, for using automated Instagram accounts to scrape data from the profiles of ...