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.

Data brokers scrape together your most personal information—including where you’ve lived in the past and who belongs to your ...

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 ...

The official word from Meta, via its main Instagram account, is that an "issue" that allowed third parties to request ...

Meta was revealed to have been paying contractors to take data from third-party websites, despite the company publicly opposing such behavior and suing companies who did the same to them. The ...

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 ...

As the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, complex questions regarding the regulation of AI data scraping remain relevant to both website owners and web data collection ...

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 ...