Even publicly accessible data is subject to privacy laws across most jurisdictions – meaning that scraping activities must comply with data protection regulations requiring a (i) lawful basis for data ...

A freelance developer has sparked debate after publishing a technical demonstration showing how posts from a private online community could be extracted and migrated to another platform. The case has ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada and other international data protection authorities recently issued a joint statement urging websites and social media platforms to ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services is looking into whether Perplexity is breaking its rules after Wired said the AI startup is swiping its web archives without consent. Perplexity, however, says it's following the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“[T]his legal interest could be vindicated by the Northern California district court if it were to order OpenAI to pay a ‘data dividend’ to consumers during the period of misappropriated use.” On June ...