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.

Meta was revealed to have been paying contractors to take data from third-party websites, despite the company publicly opposing such behavior and suing companies who did the same to them. The ...

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 ...

Google’s AI mining-by-default proposal to the Australian government comes a month after the company declared it would scrape all the internet's data. Reading time 3 minutes Google hungers for all that ...

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 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 ...

Scraping data from websites that are publicly accessible does not constitute 'hacking', ruled the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving LinkedIn. This ruling could set a precedent. The ...

A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has ...