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Sally-Anne Hinfey

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Sally-Anne Hinfey

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Sally-Anne is an experienced legal partner working in tech for nearly 12 years and, before that, in big law, where she represented clients across a range of industries including technology, telecoms and finance on all matters related to technology, contracts, IP, privacy and consumer law.

She enjoys working on the fringe areas of the law where technology is outpacing regulation and challenging lawyers to think strategically about risk while respecting existing legal boundaries.

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Web data collection legality

Why Europe’s new AI scraping guidelines miss the mark

New guidelines on generative AI scraping aim to protect user privacy. But turning a rudimentary, 30-year-old web server standard into a legal barrier will disenfranchise users and create accidental monopolies.

Sally-Anne Hinfey·August 25, 2026

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