Meta Files 2 Separate Data-Scraping Lawsuits

The defendants are Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise, and Turkish-based individual Ekrem Ateş

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Meta filed two separate actions in federal court Tuesday related to data scraping from Facebook and Instagram.

The first action was filed against Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise that claims to have more than 1 million customers and offers the options of running scraping attacks through its cloud-based platform or hiring Octopus directly to scrape data from sites including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, Indeed, Instagram, LinkedIn, Target, Twitter, Walmart and Yelp.

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