With Data Scraping, How Do Regulations and Laws Apply? Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach ...

On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to ...

In the world of tech, data is the new gold. There’s even a fierce legal battleground around how companies “mine” it. Last Friday, Google escalated these tensions by filing a federal lawsuit against ...

At the web scraping conference OxyCon 2024, its organizer Oxylabs revealed the first AI copilot for web scraping. It comes as a feature of Oxylabs’ unified Web Scraper API, which serves as an ...

The new direction for Reddit is leveraging its user data for AI training at a certain price, but the social news aggregator recently discovered a behind-the-back approach done by Microsoft. Reddit ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Massive Instagram data leak hits 17.5M users; leaked info includes emails and phone numbers, raising phishing and identity ...

Retail markets move fast, especially now that many, if not all, major retailers are betting big on emphasizing ecommerce over physical locations. As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

A new study highlights the information pollution risks inherent in an AI-enabled world. Facebook suspends firm founded by researcher behind its election study The company is investigating Boston-based ...