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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 ...

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 ...

Data scraping—extracting large amounts of information from a website using automated software programs called “bots”—has been a growing subject of costly litigation. But it doesn’t have to be. The ...

Musk’s X Corp. claims the four defendants flooded Twitter’s sign-up page with automated requests. Musk’s X Corp. claims the four defendants flooded Twitter’s sign-up page with automated requests. is a ...

The Debate on Data Scraping Was Almost Over—Until Generative AI Rekindled It Courts have issued several rulings over the last decades on data scraping—and, in most cases, have authorized the practice.

Following the discovery of a data set of Facebook user personal data available on the Internet, the European Union's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has found Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. (MPIL) in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spotify users were left alarmed this week after online claims suggested the streaming giant had been hacked, with tens of millions of songs allegedly exposed. The headlines painted a dramatic picture ...