Meta Agrees Magistrate Judge Should Hear Its Data-Scraping Case

Meta consented to have its data-scraping complaint proceed before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler for Northern California in San Francisco, said its filing Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-00154). Meta alleges Voyager Labs developed, distributed and used surveillance software that relied on fake accounts and “unauthorized automated means” to scrape data from Facebook and Instagram, and other websites such as Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Telegram (see 2301130044). It wants a jury trial.