Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth ...

In other words, Meta was a customer of Bright Data’s web-scraping services before it went to sue them, though it used the company’s services for a different purpose.

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.