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…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
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.