LinkedIn claims ProAPIs operates a network of fake accounts that scrape its members’ data, such as company and school ...

There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or ...

We live in a world—and deal with markets—increasingly driven by data. Consumers and companies throughout the globe generate massive amounts of data at any given moment. Internet searches, mobile phone ...

A federal judge has handed down a mixed ruling in a long-running battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, a defunct analytics company that scraped users' profiles. In a decision made public late Friday, ...

At the moment, the wrong laws are being used for the wrong reasons to protect inappropriate attempts at 'ownership' of data. Discuss! Web scraping is a contentious area, in that all companies need to ...

International privacy regulators are calling on social media giants to protect their users' publicly available information from web-scraping, a common business practice in the United States, but one ...

If ChatGPT starts asking you about your *shudder* endorsements any time soon, we now have at least half an idea why: U.S. users of “social media site for co-workers you don’t want to be actual friends ...

Last month, we reported that some users were unable to opt out of LinkedIn's scraping of user data to train AI. Since then, ...

Meta Platforms has sued analytics company Voyager Labs, which works with law enforcement, for allegedly scraping data that users posted about themselves. Voyager “created and used over 38,000 fake ...