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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

X Corp. seeks more than $1 million in damages over "unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents," according to the filing. It's worth noting that data scraping, by and large, is legal, ...

Data is the cornerstone of enterprise AI success, yet enterprise AI initiatives often hit an unexpected infrastructure wall: getting clean, reliable data from the web. For the last two decades, web ...

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect ...

Meta alleged that the startup Voyager Labs was improperly creating fake accounts and scaping user data. The lawsuit follows a similar, recently settled case between LinkedIn and enterprise startup hiQ ...

More than a decade before ChatGPT went live, the World Economic Forum classified personal data as a new asset class. For years, tech companies have collected their users’ data, treating it as one of ...

The Italian Data Protection Authority has launched a “fact-finding” probe into the security practices of public and private websites to prevent AI data scraping. The Italian Data Protection Authority, ...

There's no denying ChatGPT and other generative AI models are a double-edged sword: While they can deliver great value in increasing business productivity and automation, they carry serious risks, ...