Web sites such as job boards face a persistent problem: their data is constantly pilfered by automated bots. The data ends up on other competing job boards, which have stolen the content. It’s a ...

In a lawsuit from 2023, Meta said Voyager Labs created more than 38,000 fake accounts to scrape data for its investigative software, which is used by law enforcement. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal ...

Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive ...

In an ongoing dispute commenced in 2016, the Eleventh Circuit for the second time in the lifetime of the litigation considered trade secret misappropriation and related copyright claims in a scraping ...

Meta alleged that the startup Voyager Labs was improperly creating fake accounts and scaping user data. The lawsuit follows a similar, recently settled case between LinkedIn and enterprise startup hiQ ...

The Web Scrapper Software Market offers a valuable solution to organizations looking to extract, analyze, and utilize data from the vast expanse of the internet. With the rise of data-driven ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

Retail markets move fast, especially now that many, if not all, major retailers are betting big on emphasizing ecommerce over physical locations. As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of ...

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