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.

Reddit plans to retire RSS feeds in November and phase out its legacy public data API, ending access in March 2027.

Data scraping refers to the act of extracting large amounts of information from a website using automated software programs called bots. Although that may sound nefarious, often it is beneficial.

There’s more to ethical web scraping than ticking compliance boxes. It’s about getting AI the right data without opening 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

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- ...