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 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 ...

The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office and data protection authorities from Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Colombia, Jersey, Morocco, and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

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

An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the surface the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now it looks like OpenAI and Google aren’t alone in turning to YouTube content for AI training material, with buzzy brand Anthropic, AI chipmaker Nvidia and even privacy-centric Apple accused of data ...

Mobile apps have grown at tremendous pace, taking hold of countless areas of American life and offering consumers unprecedented levels of convenience. However, as illustrated by social media apps that ...