Justin Zhen, cofounder of web-scraping data vendor Thinknum, said his company and four others have maintained an informal blacklist for two years.
An internal email sent in error to a Belgian journalist describes Facebook's strategy for changing the narrative about data scraping ahead of further incidents. Katie ...
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 ...
A massive LinkedIn leak reportedly exposed data of 700 million users, making it the second large data dump following a similar episode just months earlier. More than 92% of LinkedIn’s 756 million ...
Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, Friday, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — ...
A leaked Facebook PR team memo shows how the company plans to deal with future leaks of user data. The memo said Facebook expected more "scraping" leaks and wants to "normalize the fact that this ...
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Google has filed a major legal action accusing a data-scraping company of using deceptive search activity to harvest and resell web content at scale, escalating ...