Web Scraping, Web Harvesting, or Web Data Extraction can be used for digital businesses that rely on data harvesting in both, Legal (Benevolent) or Illegal (Malicious) cases.

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 ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth ...

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data.

"Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions," an international group of privacy watchdogs warned.

OpenAI’s “web scraping” method of collecting training data is still not compliant with the EU’s data protection rules, according to an updated report from the EDPB.