Meta Settles Data-Scraping Lawsuit Filed by Facebook in October 2020

BrandTotal, Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping the two platforms

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In yet another example of the swift justice system in the U.S. at its finest, Meta reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed in October 2020 against two parties for data scraping.

Then-Facebook director of platform enforcement and litigation Jessica Romero said in a Newsroom post when the suit was filed that BrandTotal, based in Israel, and Unimania, incorporated in Delaware, used scraping to engage in an international data harvesting operation, using the data they scraped to sell marketing intelligence and other services.

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