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.

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 ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...

We live in a world—and deal with markets—increasingly driven by data. Consumers and companies throughout the globe generate massive amounts of data at any given moment. Internet searches, mobile phone ...

The latest updates to Google’s privacy policy reveal that Google may use any public information available to train its various AI products and services. Google has made updates to its privacy policy ...