Last week, Facebook sued two companies in the U.S. for scraping data from its platforms in connection with an international data harvesting work. Data scraping, or web scraping, is the process of ...

As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of data scraping and aggregation has become a pivotal tool for retailers. Long considered an industry secret, data scraping has grown into a mature ...

U.S. users of “social media site for co-workers you don’t want to be actual friends with” LinkedIn have noticed some quirks in the company’s plans to scrape user data for A.I. training lately.

The astonishing, but perhaps not surprising, scope of the data scraping was reported by 404 Media, who investigated the documents. It discovered that an internal project codenamed Cosmos (the same ...

In a lawsuit from 2023, Meta said Voyager Labs created more than 38,000 fake accounts to scrape data for its investigative software, which is used by law enforcement. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal ...