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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Beyond Copyright: Reddit’s Lawsuit Against Anthropic

On June 4, 2025, Reddit, Inc. (“Reddit”) filed suit against Anthropic, PBC (“Anthropic”) in the Superior Court of California, alleging that Anthropic scraped and commercially exploited Reddit user data—including deleted...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – China looking to set global AI standards, reconstruction of ancient writings, growth of AI summarization, and...

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Extracting Lessons from the Joint Statement on Data Scraping and Protection of Privacy

The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office and data protection authorities from Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Colombia, Jersey, Morocco, and Argentina have released a...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Privacy Authorities Press Platforms to Protect Publicly Posted Personal Information

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The Privacy Commissioner of Canada and other international data protection authorities recently issued a joint statement urging websites and social media platforms to do more to protect personal information from unlawful data...more

Hogan Lovells

Global privacy regulators join forces to warn about scraping publicly available information

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On August 24, 2023, twelve international data protection and privacy regulators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and APAC announced their “global expectations of social media platforms and other sites to safeguard against...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Trove of Online LinkedIn User Data Fuels LinkedIn’s Anti-Scraping Position

Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other websites was available for...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Facebook Brings Suit against Developers of a Browser Extension That Harvested User Data

In continuing its efforts to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized scraping of user data, this week Facebook brought suit against two marketing analytics firms, BrandTotal Ltd...more

Sunstein LLP

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

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Cambridge Analytica Shook Up the Way We View Data Privacy—and Ediscovery Collections

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After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more

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