We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people. Also in this edition of Tech Life: if you work in the fashion ...

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated tools and software. This technique can be incredibly valuable for entrepreneurs because it allows gathering information ...

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 ...

For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

Social media firm alleges that the AI company unlawfully scraped millions of posts and comments from its platform.

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

The authenticity of web scraping has been the subject of much debate. The question is, "is web scraping legal"? Web scraping is not a criminal offense. However, some ground rules must be followed ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...

According to a report by Bloomberg, Reddit has also sued three other companies for scraping data from its website without ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — On remand from the Supreme Court, a Ninth Circuit panel signaled Monday that it will reaffirm its prior stance that companies like LinkedIn cannot use a 1984 anti-hacking law to ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...