For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

In September 2019, the Ninth Circuit held that hiQ Labs, Inc.’s (“hiQ”) collection and use of information that LinkedIn users shared on their public profiles did not violate the Computer Fraud and ...

The Open AI Jukebox app, asserts the ICMP, has been trained on a wide range of copy-protected music by artists including ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is ...

LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn quickly cheered as a "final, decisive victory" that established an ...

(Reuters) - Public websites are fair game for data scrapers and others — including journalists and academics — who want to access information without worrying about potential criminal exposure. That's ...

Facebook’s long-term strategy is to desensitize users about leaked data dumps that were collected through scraping the public portion of the social network. The plan was revealed after the company ...

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, ...