Voyager’s Data-Scraping Conduct Persisted After New Cease and Desist Letter: Meta

After Meta alleged in its Jan. 12 complaint that surveillance software company Voyager Labs created and used more than 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts to scrape more than 600,000 Facebook users’ “viewable profile information” (see 2301130044), Voyager created more than 11,000 additional fake accounts on Facebook and scraped additional Facebook users’ profiles, alleged Meta’s first amended complaint Friday (docket 4:23-cv-00154) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland. Meta sent Voyager another cease and desist letter Feb. 23, notifying Voyager of its “ongoing violations” and repeating that Meta had revoked Voyager’s access to Facebook and Instagram, it said. But subsequent to the latest cease and desist letter, Voyager created yet another 6,000-plus new fake accounts, and scraped additional Facebook users’ profiles, it said.