ByteDance looks like it's eager to make up for lost time when it comes to scraping the web for data needed to train its generative AI models. The China-based parent company of video app TikTok ...

Writing a scraper or two for a story is (usually) a fairly straightforward task for a data journalist who knows a bit of code ...

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI revolution. But even the most advanced AI requires a critical ingredient to function and grow: Data. The explosion ...

Let’s be honest: nobody dreams of spending their days copying and pasting data from websites into spreadsheets. Yet, for sales, marketing, and operations teams, the hunt for fresh leads, competitive ...

Spotify users were left alarmed this week after online claims suggested the streaming giant had been hacked, with tens of millions of songs allegedly exposed. The headlines painted a dramatic picture ...

Web scraping is the name given to the process of extracting structured data from third-party websites. In other words, it's a way to capture specific information from one or more websites without also ...

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 ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...