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Can You Prevent AI From Scraping Your Website Data? District Court Says Answer Lies in Copyright Law

ArentFox Schiff on 8/1/2024

As the prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to rise, complex questions regarding the regulation of AI data scraping remain relevant to both website owners and web data collection companies. Though many...more

Major Decision Affects Law of Scraping and Online Data Collection, Meta Platforms v. Bright Data

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 1/31/2024

On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary judgment ruling with potentially wide-ranging ramifications for the law of scraping and...more

Privacy Authorities Press Platforms to Protect Publicly Posted Personal Information

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 9/8/2023

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada and other international data protection authorities recently issued a joint statement urging websites and social media platforms to do more to protect personal information from unlawful data...more

Global privacy regulators join forces to warn about scraping publicly available information

Hogan Lovells on 8/25/2023

On August 24, 2023, twelve international data protection and privacy regulators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and APAC announced their “global expectations of social media platforms and other sites to safeguard against...more

Facebook Brings Suit against Developers of a Browser Extension That Harvested User Data

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 10/5/2020

In continuing its efforts to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized scraping of user data, this week Facebook brought suit against two marketing analytics firms, BrandTotal Ltd...more

Facebook Brings Suit against Mobile Marketing Firm for Siphoning User Data without Authorization

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 3/10/2020

In continuing its push to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized collection or scraping of user data, Facebook brought suit last month against mobile marketing and data analytics firm...more

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

Sunstein LLP on 11/8/2019

Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 9/23/2019

Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

In Blockbuster Ruling, Ninth Circuit Affirms hiQ Injunction — CFAA Claim Likely Not Available for Scraping Publicly Available...

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 9/10/2019

In a ruling that is being hailed as a victory for web scrapers and the open nature of publicly available website data, the Ninth Circuit today issued its long-awaited opinion in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783...more

Cambridge Analytica Shook Up the Way We View Data Privacy—and Ediscovery Collections

Hanzo on 1/9/2019

After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more

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