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.

Web scraping is an automated method of collecting data from websites and storing it in a structured format. We explain popular tools for getting that data and what you can do with it.

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites.

As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: ...

Photo: Getty Images AI data scraping is definitely a 21st century problem. As the AI revolution progresses, the endless need for scads of data to train modern AI systems shows no sign of slowing.

Among the privacy risks the regulators highlight is the use of data scraping for targeted cyberattacks such as social engineering and phishing; identity fraud; and for the monitoring, profiling ...

Antitrust Trade and Practice Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law: The Debate Continues 9 minute read September 08, 2017 at 02:04 PM ...

Data scraping of the internet for massive amounts of data could be described as generative AI's secret sauce. Experts say the current blowback is unsurprising.

Laurence Dutton/Getty Images A band of 12 nations have issued a joint statement warning against the use of data scraping technologies to collect personal data from social media platforms and other ...

OpenAI's in-house tools have real-time answering blind spots. The company's solution could be to patch it with Google's search index.