Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, scraping was mainly done on static pages – those with known elements, tags ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

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 ...

Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced that it’s suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, accusing it of offering data-scraping services for Facebook and Instagram. The social ...

Meta has filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs, which it has accused of creating tens of thousands of fake accounts to scrape data from more than 600,000 Facebook users' profiles. It says the ...

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 ...

The Hong Kong-based company Social Data Trading allegedly scraped data from Instagram and used the information for a paid analytics service, Instagram parent company Meta claims in a new lawsuit.

Apple Intelligence is upon us, but not every company that owns a major website is a fan of Apple scraping its data to train AI. A new report by Wired found that several widely recognizable online ...