Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites.

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.

Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database.

An appeals court Monday ruled in favor of hiQ Labs, a company that automatically gathers data from LinkedIn profiles, despite LinkedIn’s claims that this practice endangers user privacy.

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

Scraping data from a website likely doesn’t violate anti-hacking laws as long as the data is public, a US court has concluded. Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said LinkedIn ...