Voyager Labs Soon to Seek Dismissal of Meta’s Data-Scraping Complaint
Voyager Labs plans to file a motion soon to dismiss Meta’s complaint alleging the U.K. company’s data-scraping activities violate Meta’s terms of service (see 2301130044), said a joint case management statement Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-00154) in U.S. District Court for Northern…
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California in Oakland. Voyager denies having scraped data from Facebook or Instagram, and believes Meta’s complaint “was not borne out of genuine concern about the alleged data scraping” but rather “as part of a public relations campaign,” said the statement. Meta has been aware of the Voyager software at issue for more than seven years, “at least through direct, in-person meetings involving the highest echelons of Meta’s predecessor-in-interest, Facebook,” including with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it said. Meta asserts it “devotes substantial resources to combating unauthorized scraping” by entities like Voyager, and that its legal counsel has put Voyager “on notice” since at least October 2017 to cease its unauthorized activity, said the statement.