Technology
Jan. 25, 2024
Data scraping service wins dispute with social media giants
Meta Platforms claimed the Israeli company Bright Data reached its contract by unlawfully gathering information from Facebook and Instagram users and selling it to third parties.
An Israeli data scraping service did not violate its contract with Meta Platforms Inc. when collecting publicly available data from Facebook and Instagram, ruled a federal judge in San Francisco.
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen granted Bright Data Ltd.’s motion for summary judgment and denied Meta’s motion for partial summary judgment in his order Tuesday. Neither Meta nor its attorneys at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP re...
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