All about data scraping

▤ Summary

For example, Canada’s federal privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), clearly prohibits email harvesting. And when Clearview AI scraped the facial information from websites, it was necessary to first obtain express opt-in consent before it collected the images of any individual in Canada. Further, the stated purposes of helping law enforcement were neither appropriate nor legitimate—this represented the mass identification and surveillance of individuals by a private entity in the course of commercial activity. In fact, a rash of data scraping has been reported recently, hitting other social media platforms including Facebook and Clubhouse. Conversely, when there has been a data breach, private member information held by an organization is hacked and certain obligations are consequently triggered.

▦ Linked Companies

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$1M to $5M