Meta is suing surveillance firm that collected data of 600,000 users using fake accounts

Meta has announced that it is initiating legal action to ban Voyager Labs from its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, for collecting user data using fake accounts. The company has filed a case against Voyager Labs in the US.

“Today, Meta is fighting back against a scraping-for-hire service and filed a legal action against Voyager Labs in federal court in California. Voyager Labs is a scraping and surveillance service that improperly collected data from Facebook, Instagram and other websites. We disabled Voyager’s accounts, filed this action to enforce our Terms and Policies and asked the Court to ban Voyager from Facebook and Instagram,” the company said in a blog post.