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.

Courts have issued several rulings over the last decades on data scraping—and, in most cases, have authorized the practice. But generative AI has allowed scraping to proliferate to levels that experts ...

The new direction for Reddit is leveraging its user data for AI training at a certain price, but the social news aggregator recently discovered a behind-the-back approach done by Microsoft. Reddit ...

Reddit files lawsuit against Perplexity AI for allegedly scraping its data to train AI models without permission.

Reddit sued Perplexity AI alleging data theft in a landmark case that pits the "public but paid" web against AI's insatiable appetite for training data. The outcome could redefine data ownership in ...

Investing.com -- Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT) has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three data scraping companies for allegedly collecting and using Reddit data without permission. The lawsuit, ...

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has found itself amidst another controversy, as the social media giant was caught in a hypocritical act of publicly condemning data scraping while secretly paying a ...

The banks want the pay-by-bank provider to use application programming interfaces to protect consumers, they say.

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 ...

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 ...

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