Massive Instagram data leak hits 17.5M users; leaked info includes emails and phone numbers, raising phishing and identity ...

A 16TB cache of corporate intelligence data has been left exposed online, spilling billions of detailed professional profiles ...

Tech giants are using algorithms, data and digital technologies to exert power over others, and take data without consent.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

On 1 May 2024, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued guidelines on data scraping used by private organisations in relation to GDPR principles including ‘lawfulness’. The guidelines could ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...