International Association of Privacy ProfessionalsOpinion

Thought for the week: Web scraping for generative AI is subject to the GDPR

Organizations using scraped data for AI training should prepare for heightened expectations around data minimization, ...

Web Scraper Sets $1 Million ‘Bug Bounty’ As Industry Scrutinized

Bright Data Ltd., an Israel-based startup that sells web scraping tools and datasets, is set to announce a $1 million “bug ...
Tech Times

GDPR Applies to AI Training Data: EU Ends Web Scraping Free Pass for Every Lab

GDPR AI training data guidelines adopted by the European Data Protection Board on July 8, 2026, end the free-pass era for ...

Cloudflare's latest AI rankings expose the web's biggest free rider

Anthropic's web scraping practices spotlight ethical AI dilemmas, with a high crawl-to-refer ratio undermining the digital ...
InfoWorld

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude AI

The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities. Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to ...
The Guardian Nigeria

How to Use Proxies in Python Requests for Scraping (2026 Guide)

Web scraping used to be simple. A few lines of Python, a requests.get() call, and the data you needed landed in your terminal. In 2026, that approach gets you blocked ...