Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

There's no denying ChatGPT and other generative AI models are a double-edged sword: While they can deliver great value in increasing business productivity and automation, they carry serious risks, ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

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 power of large language models (LLMs) that enables generative AI derives from vast quantities of data. Much of this data comes from scraping all forms of content from the internet. Despite the ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

Courts have issued several rulings over the last decades on data scraping—and, in most cases, have authorized the practice. But generative AI has allowed scraping to proliferate to levels that experts ...

A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other online sites, which are required ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

Investing.com -- Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT) has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three data scraping companies for allegedly collecting and using Reddit data without permission. The lawsuit, ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity AI for continuing to use Reddit’s content to train its AI model after prior warnings not to scrape the platform’s content. As AI systems increasingly rely on publicly ...