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Data Scraping
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New Media and Technology Law Blog
Another Web Scraping Dispute Focused on Travel Data
Flight and travel data has always been valuable for data aggregators and online travel services and has prompted litigation over the years. Latest suit from Air Canada against a rewards…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
When Successful, Art Exceeds Its Creator’s Plans – Especially In the Days of AI
When successful, art exceeds its creator’s plans. So true in these days of AI. No one could have envisioned the “travelings” of a book, an article or a legal blog…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Help Wanted: Site Owner Brings New Scraping Suits Focused on Job Posting and Employment Data
UPDATE: On February 5, 2024, the California district court granted the defendant Aspen Technology Labs, Inc.’s motion to dismiss Jobiak LLC’s web scraping complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction, with…
The Data Advisor
Global Regulators Highlight Potential Harms of Data Scraping and Best Practices
By Laura Brodahl, Tom Evans, Yann Padova, Cédric Burton
On August 24, 2023, some members of the Global Privacy Assembly’s International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group published a joint statement on data scraping (Statement). Signatories to the Statement include the…
Financial Services Blog
More Privacy, Please — August/September 2023
By Molly DiRago, Robyn Lin, Natasha Halloran, Ronald I. Raether, Jr., James Koenig, Kim Phan, Karla Ballesteros, April Garbuz
Editor's Note: As the summer months come to an end, there has been no shortage of privacy news and updates. Oregon signed both a comprehensive privacy law and data broker…
Bright Law Blog
Screen scraping regulatory review
Treasury has published a discussion paper on options for regulating screen scraping practices that involve consumers sharing login details with third parties to access their accounts to collect data to…
Eye On Privacy
Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel: X Corp. Sues Bright Data Over Site Scraping
By Liisa Thomas, Wynter Deagle, Anne-Marie Dao, Dane Brody Chanove
X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, recently sued Bright Data over its site scraping activities. Bright Data is a data collection company and advertises—among other services—its “website scraping”…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Joint Statement Published on Data Scraping and the Protection of Privacy
On August 24, 2023, 12 data protection authorities published a joint statement calling for the protection of personal data from unlawful data scraping.
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
X Corp Lawsuits Target Data Scraping
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team
X Corp (formerly Twitter) has cracked down on data scrapers in a series of lawsuits filed within the last several weeks. One lawsuit targets an Israel-based research firm that provides…
Consumer Finance Monitor
OpenAI class action likely to increase scrutiny of webscraping and data collection practices
By Philip N. Yannella, Timothy Dickens
On June 28, a group of plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI—creator and publisher of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT—as well as OpenAI’s primary investor, Microsoft.…