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.

The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

Even publicly accessible data is subject to privacy laws across most jurisdictions – meaning that scraping activities must comply with data protection regulations requiring a (i) lawful basis for data ...

Here are some free software options to extract data from small to medium data sets to help you get the job done. We have all been there before. You need the right data from a website for your next ...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority—the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)—recently announced that it will in many cases regard scraping of personal data by private sector organizations as an ...

Data scraping has changed from what it was a few years ago, according to the 2025 edition of The Most Scraped Websites, a study by Decodo. “ Companies aren't just grabbing text from websites anymore,” ...

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot ...

(Reuters) -Social media platform Reddit sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig’s global team of web crawling experts with in-depth domain expertise has a proven track record of identifying and implementing web analytics best practices to create ...

An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

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