{"id":8599,"date":"2023-01-12T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/meta-alleges-surveillance-firm-collected-data-on-600000-users-via-fake-accounts\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:39:25","slug":"meta-alleges-surveillance-firm-collected-data-on-600000-users-via-fake-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/meta-alleges-surveillance-firm-collected-data-on-600000-users-via-fake-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta alleges surveillance firm collected data on 600,000 users via fake accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit targets Voyager after Guardian investigation uncovered police partnership and company\u2019s claims it could predict crime<\/p>\n<p>Meta has sued to block a surveillance company from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the firm, which has partnered with law enforcement, created tens of thousands of fake accounts to collect user data.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/01\/leading-the-fight-against-scraping-for-hire\/\">complaint filed<\/a> on Thursday asks a judge to permanently ban Voyager Labs from accessing Meta\u2019s sites and comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/los-angeles-police-surveillance-social-media-voyager\">Guardian investigation<\/a> revealed the company had partnered with the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) in 2019 and claimed that it could use social media information to predict who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/17\/police-surveillance-technology-voyager\">may commit a future crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/12\/meta-voyager-labs-surveillance-fake-accounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/02e43aae263a31389d93f7b196cfff5697492c37\/0_32_3300_1980\/master\/3300.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c0d914de0d5a90a808b165cc5f7715a0\" title=\"Meta alleges surveillance firm collected data on 600,000 users via fake accounts\" \/>Lawsuit targets Voyager after Guardian investigation uncovered police partnership and company\u2019s claims it could predict crime<br \/>\nMeta has sued to block a surveillance company from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the firm, which has partnered with law enforcement, created tens of thousands of fake accounts to collect user data.<br \/>\nA complaint filed on Thursday asks a judge to permanently ban Voyager Labs from accessing Meta\u2019s sites and comes after a Guardian investigation revealed the company had partnered with the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) in 2019 and claimed that it could use social media information to predict who may commit a future crime. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit targets Voyager after Guardian investigation uncovered police partnership and company\u2019s claims it could predict crime Meta has sued to block a surveillance company from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the firm, which has partnered with law enforcement, created tens of thousands of fake accounts to collect user data. A complaint filed on Thursday asks &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/meta-alleges-surveillance-firm-collected-data-on-600000-users-via-fake-accounts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta alleges surveillance firm collected data on 600,000 users via fake accounts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}