Judge rules copyright law governs public data scraping, not X’s terms.

Web "scraping" is one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate, both antitrust and otherwise.

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 ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs ...

Bright Data then sold the scraped data and developed and sold tools to help others scrape data and avoid detection. Bright Data argues its services allow customers to search for data that users choose ...

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data.

The advent of web scraping tools has revolutionized the gathering of trustworthy information, ensuring rapid and high-quality data collection.

A band of nations including Australia, the UK, and Canada say social media platforms and websites that hold personal data are required to protect their users against illegal data scraping.