Documents show Meta paid for data scraping despite years of denouncing it
Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself — if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained…
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Yandex caught scraping Google SEO code
As TechRadar Pro reported earlier in January 2023, a former Yandex employee with a “political” motive has allegedly leaked a wide-ranging repository of…
Getty Images sues the maker of AI art generator Stable Diffusion over data scraping allegations
Last September Getty Images banned the inclusion of AI-generated works in its commercial database over copyright concerns. On Tuesday, Getty Images announced…
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation. In a press statement shared with The…
Meta sues surveillance company for allegedly scraping more than 600,000 accounts
has filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs, which it has accused of creating tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from more than 600,000 users'…
Meta is suing surveillance firm that collected data of 600,000 users using fake accounts
Meta has announced that it is initiating legal action to ban Voyager Labs from its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, for collecting user data…
Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data…
Ireland's data privacy regulator imposed an EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it…
Meta fined €265 million over Facebook data scraping in the EU
Meta has been hit with a €265 million ($277 million) fine for failing to prevent millions of Facebook users' mobile phone numbers and other data from being…
Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to a…
Web scraping and purchasing data sets — the easiest way to get your hands on the world’s most…
Today, a growing number of businesses collect public web data through what is commonly known as “web scraping (opens in new tab)”, in order to gather…