Bright Data Says X is Asking for Information Already Provided
Bright Data said it has already provided the information social media platform X is asking the court to order it to submit. In letters to Judge William Alsup, the data scrapping firm responded Tuesday to X's claims that it is attempting to stall the case and withhold its activity logs (see 2504140051).
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"Mark Twain famously said there are three types of lies: 'lies, damn lies, and statistics,'" Bright said one of the letters that focused on the unfairness of X's behavior. "In opposing Bright Data’s request for X’s server data, X cross-moves for all Bright Data’s activity logs beyond those it produced months ago. But allowing X to run its own queries on its systems using Bright Data’s logs while denying Bright Data the ability to access the same data to cross-examine X is fundamentally unfair. Discovery is supposed to create an even playing field, not perpetuate an informational disadvantage."
The other letter focused on the fact that the data scraper has submitted all the evidence previously requested. "Bright Data did exactly what it promised," it said. "By the deadlines set by this Court, it produced full entries with any potential relation to X directly from its [Customer Relationship Management] database."
In case 23-03698, X Corp v. Bright Data, the social media platform alleges Bright Data extracted and copied public data from it and sells tools that help others do the same (see 2501130064). X pressed the court to dismiss the counterclaims brought by the data scraper (see 2502110067), which Bright Data opposed (see 2502040067). The U.S. District Court for Northern California on April 10 ordered X to submit server logs and other evidence by Monday at noon PST after Bright Data filed a letter to the court April 9, asking it to intervene (see 2504110053).