The Dutch Data Protection Authority—the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)—recently announced that it will in many cases regard scraping of personal data by private sector organizations as an ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

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 ...

Spotify users were left alarmed this week after online claims suggested the streaming giant had been hacked, with tens of millions of songs allegedly exposed. The headlines painted a dramatic picture ...

One use of ChatGPT, the superstar chatbot created by generative AI firm OpenAI, is drafting privacy notices. Ironically, ChatGPT itself is under scrutiny from data protection experts. While the ...