The company behind Wikipedia wants companies to stop scraping data from their website for their AI training needs.

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way.

Participatory online information site Wikipedia announced on the 10th (local time) that it would require AI companies to use ...

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to ...

Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

The banks want the pay-by-bank provider to use application programming interfaces to protect consumers, they say.

Reddit’s lawsuit is part of a broader industry dispute over the use of publicly accessible content to train large language models. Credit: gguy/Shutterstock.com. Reddit has initiated legal proceedings ...

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 ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

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 ...

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...