In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has ...

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 ...

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With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction has become much easier. Having said that, web scraping can be used by digital businesses ...

Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...