AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

"Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions," an international group of privacy watchdogs warned.

Web "scraping" is one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate, both antitrust and otherwise.

At the moment, the wrong laws are being used for the wrong reasons to protect inappropriate attempts at 'ownership' of data. Discuss! Web scraping is a contentious area, in that all companies need to ...

Data scraping of the internet for massive amounts of data could be described as generative AI's secret sauce. Experts say the current blowback is unsurprising.

Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook parent company Meta €265 million ($274 million USD) for breaching article 25 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup dismissed X’s suit against data-scraping company Bright Data, saying that social media companies already have legal precedent to decide who can collect and use data ...