Meta Sues AI Company Voyager Labs Over Alleged Fake Accounts and Data Scraping Despite Its Claims of Fighting Crime

Tech company Voyager Labs uses AI to analyze social media data to predict crime, contracting with police despite privacy concerns.
Meta sued Voyager Labs for creating over 50,000 fake accounts to scrape users' data after being banned from platform.
Voyager Labs calls lawsuit meritless, says it only analyzes public data to fight crime like human trafficking.
Meta demands Voyager Labs be removed from sites and collected data deleted in ongoing lawsuit.
Judge denied Voyager's motion to dismiss case; both sides had a pre-settlement conference but no resolution yet.

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Meta Sues AI Company Voyager Labs Over Alleged Fake Accounts and Data Scraping Despite Its Claims of Fighting Crime

Tech company Voyager Labs uses AI to analyze social media data to predict crime, contracting with police despite privacy concerns.
Meta sued Voyager Labs for creating over 50,000 fake accounts to scrape users' data after being banned from platform.
Voyager Labs calls lawsuit meritless, says it only analyzes public data to fight crime like human trafficking.
Meta demands Voyager Labs be removed from sites and collected data deleted in ongoing lawsuit.
Judge denied Voyager's motion to dismiss case; both sides had a pre-settlement conference but no resolution yet.

foxnews.com

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