Meta has withdrawn the lawsuit it filed against Israeli web scraping company Bright Data after a significant setback in the case. It is striking that Meta itself had websites scraped by Bright Data for years.
Meta was once a customer of Bright Data, but when the company scraped Meta's own data, the tech giant sued the web scraping company. According to Meta, Bright Data allegedly collected non-public data from Meta. The tech giant said, among other things, that the company had a huge dataset with 615 million records of Instagram data. This data is said to have been sold for $860,000 and included usernames, IDs, countries, post counts, hashtags, followers and profile images.
A few weeks ago, the court ruled in favor of Bright Data and said that Meta had not provided sufficient evidence that the company had scraped non-public information. Due to this setback, the tech giant has decided to drop the lawsuit, TechCrunch reports. Bright Data says the companies have not reached a settlement and the company is making no changes in its conduct.
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