Explore what the UK Getty v. Stability AI ruling means for web scraping and AI developers, from jurisdiction and copyright risk to trademarks and EU compliance.

Explore the balance between innovation and regulation in data scraping. Recent court rulings (like Meta v. Bright Data) favor scraping public data, but compliance with copyright, 'fair use,' and strict GDPR rules for personal data remains essential.

The generative AI gold rush is upon us, with astounding new products and capabilities emerging that are fuelled by web data.

Bright Data has been having great success in getting the lawsuits brought against it by social media giants dismissed.

In 2023, Meta sued Bright Data for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram, alleging that its scraping breached Facebook and Instagram’s terms of service and is thus a breach of contract.

The reputation of web scraping hasn’t always been the best. Unsavory actors have cast a shadow over the reputable parts of the web scraping industry at large, and it has to stop.

One common misconception about scraping personal data is that public personal data does not fall under the GDPR.

In this third post in our solution architecture series, we will share with you our step-by-step process for conducting a legal review of every web scraping project we work on.

When it comes to using web data as alternative data for investment decision making, one topic rules them all: compliance.

I was recently invited to speak at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels about web scraping and GDPR.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you know that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is upon us.

Explore what the UK Getty v. Stability AI ruling means for web scraping and AI developers, from jurisdiction and copyright risk to trademarks and EU compliance.

Explore the balance between innovation and regulation in data scraping. Recent court rulings (like Meta v. Bright Data) favor scraping public data, but compliance with copyright, 'fair use,' and strict GDPR rules for personal data remains essential.

The generative AI gold rush is upon us, with astounding new products and capabilities emerging that are fuelled by web data.

Bright Data has been having great success in getting the lawsuits brought against it by social media giants dismissed.

In 2023, Meta sued Bright Data for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram, alleging that its scraping breached Facebook and Instagram’s terms of service and is thus a breach of contract.

The reputation of web scraping hasn’t always been the best. Unsavory actors have cast a shadow over the reputable parts of the web scraping industry at large, and it has to stop.

One common misconception about scraping personal data is that public personal data does not fall under the GDPR.

In this third post in our solution architecture series, we will share with you our step-by-step process for conducting a legal review of every web scraping project we work on.

When it comes to using web data as alternative data for investment decision making, one topic rules them all: compliance.

I was recently invited to speak at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels about web scraping and GDPR.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you know that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is upon us.