Meta drops lawsuit against web scraping firm Bright Data that sold millions of Instagram records

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Meta has dropped its lawsuit against an Israeli web scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against companies that scrape data from its websites and apps, and Bright Data was among the latest to face a legal attack. However, the court recently ruled in favor of Bright Data on a breach of contract claim, saying that Meta hadn’t presented sufficient evidence that proved the firm had scraped anything other than public data. Rather than continue to fight this case, Meta has...