Data scraping is a technique in which automated tools-- robots or “bots”--are used to extract large quantities of data from a website. In some cases, the extracted data has been developed by the ...

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...

Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet. On ...

An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has been accused of aggressively scraping data from websites to ...

AI startup Perplexity is allegedly crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly said that they don’t want to be scraped. On Monday, Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider, ...

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 ...

Concerns are raised over Microsoft’s use of customer data for AI training But the company confirmed it does not use customer data to train LLMs Publicly available information is considered open for ...