Meta settles data scraping lawsuit

Meta settled a U.S. lawsuit against two companies that scraped data from Facebook and Instagram users, TechCrunch reports. The companies, Israel’s BrandTotal and Delaware’s Unimania, agreed to a permanent ban from scraping data from Meta’s platforms or profiting from the data they collected. The companies also agreed to pay Meta an unspecified “significant financial sum." Meta brought the lawsuit because the companies’ browser extensions scraped Facebook and Instagram's user data for advertisers.