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.

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it. I write to ...

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 Circuit of ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...