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 reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

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 ...

On November 15, 2022, a California district court declined to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by a data scraper, 3taps, Inc. (“3taps”), against ...

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 ...

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI revolution. But even the most advanced AI requires a critical ingredient to function and grow: Data. The explosion ...

Information is the new oil, and fast data extraction sets leaders apart. As web data grows rapidly, practical tools are needed to extract this information. Traditional web scraping methods often ...

South Carolina has the highest eviction rate in the country, and the state chapter of the NAACP wanted to find out why. Given the difficulty of tracking down every case by hand, the organization hoped ...

The Texas-based data scraper SerpApi is urging a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by Google, which claims SerpApi circumvents attempts to prevent it from scraping search results. In papers filed ...

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Meta alleged that the startup Voyager Labs was improperly creating fake accounts and scaping user data. The lawsuit follows a similar, recently settled case between LinkedIn and enterprise startup hiQ ...