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Is screen-scraping your bank account putting your money at risk? What Canadians need to know now

If you use a budgeting app, a debt tracker or a financial aggregator — or any other app or program that asks you to enter your online banking username and password — then you’ve used screen-scraping, ...
American Banker

Wells Fargo, PNC tell Trustly to stop screen scraping customer data

Wells Fargo has asked Trustly, a Stockholm-based data aggregator, to stop screen scraping the bank's customer data and to not use the bank's logo to do so. Wells Fargo and PNC have asked Trustly to ...
Ars Technica

Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording

Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them ...
RIABiz

Fidelity just dropped the hammer on screen scrapers to cheers, but some firms, like Plaid, are holdouts and the CFPB may wield the final gavel

Figen Cecili is masterminding Fidelity's weaning of screenscrapers. Fidelity Investments has squashed all screen scrapers which harvest investor data from its websites, directing them instead to a ...