A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against Israel's Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of public online data and its appropriate uses.
X, formerly Twitter, sued Bright Data, alleging the company "scrapes data from X" and sells it "using elaborate technical measures to evade X Corp.'s anti-scraping technology."
He added that X was not "looking to protect X users' privacy," and was "happy to allow the extraction and copying of X users' content so long as it gets paid."
Bright Data says it only scrapes publicly available data that's visible to anyone without a login.
At the time of the suit's filing, X made the information Bright Data scraped available to anyone.
Persons:
Elon Musk's, X, William Alsup, X didn't, Meta
Organizations:
Israel's, Twitter, Bright Data, X Corp, LinkedIn, Bright, Data, Meta
Locations:
California, U.S, Texas, Dallas County