SAN FRANCISCO — In a startup hub near Chinatown, a few dozen programmers grabbed light beers and flipped open their laptops for a series of demonstrations on how to get around data scraping blockers.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

The Italian Data Protection Authority, a local privacy regulator, announced the launch of a “fact-finding” investigation on Nov. 22, in which it will look into the practice of data gathering to train ...

Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...