Meta Platforms, Inc. v. Voyager Labs Ltd.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 META PLATFORMS, INC., Case No. 23-cv-00154-AMO
Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
DISMISS
v.
VOYAGER LABS LTD., Re: Dkt. No. 83 Defendant.
This is an action by Meta Platforms, Inc., against a UK-based entity, Voyager Labs Ltd. Voyager designed surveillance software that uses tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from Facebook and Instagram. ECF 42 ¶¶ 33-35, 38. Voyager licenses that software to its customers, such as law enforcement agencies, who pay considerable fees to anonymously acquire data about a target. Id. ¶¶ 38-47. Based on this alleged misuse of Facebook and Instagram, Meta asserts claims for breach of contract, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, and violation of the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Cal. Penal Code § 502. Id. ¶¶ 80-89, ¶¶ 90-94, ¶¶ 95-103. Voyager moves to dismiss the operative first amended complaint on two grounds. First, Voyager…