• Meta sues "scraping-for-hire" service that sells user data to law enfor

    From Monty Solomon@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 15 22:48:43 2023
    Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling
    network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of
    personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other
    social networking sites.

    “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts
    and its Surveillance Software to scrape more than 600,000 Facebook
    users’ viewable profile information, including posts, likes, friends
    lists, photos, and comments, and information from Facebook Groups and
    Pages,” lawyers wrote in Meta’s complaint. “Defendant designed the Surveillance Software to conceal its presence and activity from Meta
    and others, and sold and licensed for profit the data it scraped.”

    https://arstechnica.com/?p=1910046

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