Meta Takes Legal Action Against Surveillance Company for Scraping 600,000 Accounts
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Meta Takes Legal Action Against Surveillance Company for Scraping 600,000 Accounts

In 2021, The Guardian reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had tested Voyager Labs’ social media surveillance tools 2019. The company is said to have told the department that police could use the software to track the accounts of a suspect’s friends on social media, and that the system could predict crimes before they took place by making assumptions about a person’s activity.