While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

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 ...

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. The tech giant, which has a long ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

Meta has been using user content on Instagram for AI data scraping. If you haven't known this yet, you need to scroll further on IG the next time you open the app. Once you scroll through your feed, a ...

Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot. By Jesus Jiménez Meta has been expanding its artificial ...

If you’ve scrolled through Instagram lately, you’ve likely come across an odd message in people’s feeds. Stories and posts are popping up, declaring that those users, not Instagram, own the copyright ...