On August 24, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a joint statement in conjunction with 11 other global authorities responsible for data protection and privacy on data scraping. Data ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

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 ...

Retail markets move fast, especially now that many, if not all, major retailers are betting big on emphasizing ecommerce over physical locations. As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

Imagine being able to extract precise, actionable data from any website, without the frustration of sifting through irrelevant search results or battling restrictive platforms. Traditional web search ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...