“Google argued that ‘SerpApi’s business model is parasitic,’ and that it ‘appropriates the output of other services that have made substantial investments to generate it.’” On December 19, Google LLC ...

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search ...

Google claims SerpApi built tools specifically to bypass its new "SearchGuard" defense system. The lawsuit targets the "trafficking" of circumvention tools under the DMCA, not just scraping. Google is ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

AI 'No platform gets a free pass': UK government's Online Safety Act rules extending to chatbots after Grok fallout AI A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for ...

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 ...

Is the data publicly available? How good is the quality of the data? How difficult is it to access the data? Even if the first two answers are a clear yes, we still can’t celebrate, because the last ...

Monday - Friday, 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET Reddit CEO Steve Huffman addressed recent lawsuits his company has brought against AI outfits. Huffman suggested he understands the opposition's point of view, but ...

Reddit alleged that AI company Perplexity accessed its copyrighted user content through third-party entities that illegally scraped the data off its platform. It comes amid a similar lawsuit from ...