Web Scraping, Web Harvesting, or Web Data Extraction can be used for digital businesses that rely on data harvesting in both, Legal (Benevolent) or Illegal (Malicious) cases.

Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company Judge throws out Meta claim against firm that sells Facebook and Instagram data.

OpenAI’s “web scraping” method of collecting training data is still not compliant with the EU’s data protection rules, according to an updated report from the EDPB.

"Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions," an international group of privacy watchdogs warned.