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.

Web scraping can be an invaluable skill to possess when working on data-related projects because many interesting analytics projects often start not with over-explored internal data, but with the ...

To stop scraping, the company is increasing security around its website and will now only allow authenticated users to view ...

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that. It's a huge amount of raw information. By comparison, there are only roughly 10,000 web APIs- ...

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 ...

X Corp. seeks more than $1 million in damages over "unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents," according to the filing. It's worth noting that data scraping, by and large, is legal, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has ...