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 ...

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 ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, data scraping is a hot topic. The copying of online text, images and videos has beneficial use cases (e.g. training AI models for more ...

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 data. X had claimed that Bright Data scrapes its data, ...

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 ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

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Twitter — or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. — has sued four John Does who have allegedly "engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data" from the website. They were described as "unknown ...

A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other online sites, which are required ...

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect ...

Web scraping for massive amounts of data can arguably be described as the secret sauce of generative AI. After all, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard and LLaMA can spit out coherent text because ...