Facebook has another privacy issue in its hands. A security researcher shared a video with Vice, Ars Technica and others, showing how a tool can match email addresses to Facebook profiles in bulk — ...

Discord Takes Down Data-Scraping Site That Tracked, Spied on Users A third-party surveillance tool tracked millions of Discord users across servers. Discord dismantled the site, but SpyPet's admin ...

In a putative class action filed on June 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California, and in other similar cases, plaintiffs allege that OpenAI, Microsoft, and their respective affiliates ...

Pavlo Zinkovskyi is the co-founder and CTO of Infatica.io, which offers a wide range of proxy support for residential and mobile needs. Research is a cornerstone of human progress, which holds ...

Data scraping firm SerpApi LLC sued a former contractor in federal court, accusing him of pillaging its source code and founding a copycat company.

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect ...

Web scraping, or web data extraction, is a way of collecting and organizing information from online sources using automated means. From its humble beginnings in a niche practice to the current ...

What Is a Web Scraping Service? There's a vast wealth of information available online, but making effective use of it can be extremely challenging. Even after identifying a valuable source of ...

A definitive guide (for marketers, developers and everyday users) on what web scraping is and how to use it. Web scraping is a useful tool for harvesting data from websites that don't offer an ...