Facebook, Instagram Fall Prey to Data Scraping; Indict Chinese Company

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Meta Platforms, Inc prosecuted Octopus Data, the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise Shenzhen Vision Information Technology Co.

Octopus Data allegedly offered data scraping services for Facebook and Instagram.