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Meta drops lawsuit against web-scraping firm Bright Data that sold millions of Instagram records


Meta has dropped its lawsuit against an  Israeli web scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against an Israeli web scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. including the October 2022 settlement of a case against two other firms, Israeli-based BrandTotal Ltd. and Delaware-incorporated Unimania Inc., which both agreed to a permanent injunction that banned them from scraping Facebook and Instagram data going forward. And in 2022, it sued a clone site operator and a company called Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise that had offered scraping services.

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