Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.

Spotify's platform has reportedly been breached, with over 300TB worth of data and 86 million songs stolen by Anna's Archive.

"Even with the support of new emerging regulations, independent researchers still face major barriers to accessing even basic social media data essential for studying everything from election ...

Wikipedia, the renowned online encyclopedia, has issued a stern appeal to AI companies on November 10, 2025. The nonprofit organization is urging these firms to use its paid API for accessing content, ...

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...

Wells Fargo has asked Trustly, a Stockholm-based data aggregator, to stop screen scraping the bank's customer data and to not use the bank's logo to do so. Wells Fargo and PNC have asked Trustly to ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

Social media giant Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three other firms over alleged “industrial-scale” scraping of posts from its website. Perplexity – a San Francisco-based startup with its own ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

Let’s say a website makes it a violation of its terms of service for you to send bots onto its pages in order to vacuum up its text, which you want to package as AI ...