Octopus Data is a subsidiary of the China-based Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co (SVIT), which develops data-related products and services. Meta’s lawsuit also alleges a violation of its terms and conditions that spell out the following: “You will not collect users’ content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission.” Meta alleges that Octopus Data violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by engaging in “unauthorized and automated scraping and attempting to conceal their scraping and avoid being detected and blocked from Facebook and Instagram.” In a separate lawsuit, Meta is also suing Ekrem Ateş, a Turkish individual, for scraping off hundreds of thousands of Instagram users’ profiles. Facebook’s parent company Meta is suing Octopus Data, a U.S-based subsidiary of a “Chinese national high-tech enterprise,” for developing web scraping tools used on Facebook and Instagram.
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