The hackers exploited data processing measures in Facebook’s contact importer feature (active between 25th May 2018 to September 2019) to conduct web scraping activities on public profiles and ...

An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping ... prohibits activity like hacking and cyberattacks. Additionally, LinkedIn told the court an injunction allowing hiQ to resume scraping would ...

The case before the Ninth Circuit was originally brought by LinkedIn against Hiq Labs, a company that uses public data to analyze employee attrition. LinkedIn said Hiq’s mass web scraping of ...

Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long ...

Most of these generators find their training data by “scraping” the internet. Scrapers use software that collects data in bulk from across the web, from platforms like DeviantArt and ...