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Meta settles lawsuits with 2 firms using its platforms for data scraping

Business Standard | 04/10/2022 04:28 PM | Click to read full article

Meta has settled a lawsuit for a "significant sum" against two companies that were engaged in data scraping operations.

The social network filed the lawsuits in October 2020 in the US against two companies that used scraping to engage in an international data harvesting operation. These companies scraped data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Amazon, in order to sell "marketing intelligence and other services.

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