A 16TB cache of corporate intelligence data has been left exposed online, spilling billions of detailed professional profiles ...

Tech giants are using algorithms, data and digital technologies to exert power over others, and take data without consent.

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 ...

On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

South Carolina has the highest eviction rate in the country, and the state chapter of the NAACP wanted to find out why. Given the difficulty of tracking down every case by hand, the organization hoped ...

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 ...