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Court rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued
Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm, Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram
In a related matter, Bright Data had also been accused of collecting personal information about minors pulled from Facebook and Instagram, Bloomberg reported last year. That means Bright Data was not acting as a “user” of the services at the time it was scraping, but only as a logged-out “visitor.” The court also didn’t find other legal arguments Meta had used convincing enough to rule in its favor on breach of contract. The tech giant has regularly sued companies that engage in data scraping operations in an effort to discourage the practice.
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