The company allegedly took that data and sold it to clients promising them powerful social media surveillance of potential targets.
In its newest complaint, Meta claims Voyager created more than 38,000 fake accounts and used those to scrape 600,000 Facebook users’ “viewable profile information.” That profile data potentially implicates posts, likes, friends lists, photos, and comments and certain data pulled from Facebook Groups and Pages.
Voyager allegedly marketed its scraping tools to companies interested in conducting surveillance on social media sites without being detected and then sold its bounty to the highest bidder.Voyager bills itself as an investigative tool intended for law enforcement. A 2021n revealed the Los Angeles Police Department used a free trial of Voyager’s software back in 2019.
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