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.

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International privacy regulators are calling on social media giants to protect their users' publicly available information from web-scraping, a common business practice in the United States, but one ...

At the moment, the wrong laws are being used for the wrong reasons to protect inappropriate attempts at 'ownership' of data. Discuss! Web scraping is a contentious area, in that all companies need to ...

The company is investigating Boston-based Crimson Hexagon, which has analyzed social media data for the U.S. government and a Kremlin-linked nonprofit. Everything Journalists Should Know About ...

Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against ...

Twitter — or more precisely, its parent company X Corp. — has sued four John Does who have allegedly "engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data" from the website. They were described as "unknown ...

Publishers are grappling with an existential threat as AI companies siphon content outright without permission, payment or attribution.