Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta's breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

DALLAS — Elon Musk's X Corp. — the company that owns Twitter — has filed a lawsuit against four people or entities in Dallas County, accusing them of data scraping from the social media platform, ...

Amazon Web Services is looking into whether Perplexity is breaking its rules after Wired said the AI startup is swiping its web archives without consent. Perplexity, however, says it's following the ...

OpenAI and Microsoft have been named as the defendants in yet another class-action lawsuit over their alleged use of web scraping techniques to obtain supposedly private data for the use of training ...

A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other online sites, which are required ...