Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...

Scraping a few pages with a couple of popular tools is a straightforward process, but scaling to millions of pages moves beyond writing good code into creating a robust distributed system that can ...

Data scraping does not quite look like a data breach. But in cases of "mass web scraping," the amount of users' data leaked may trigger breach reporting notification obligations in some jurisdictions.

Information is the new oil, and fast data extraction sets leaders apart. As web data grows rapidly, practical tools are needed to extract this information. Traditional web scraping methods often ...

Scraping job boards and career portals is eventful, to say the least. First, job data is extremely messy, so good luck sorting it out. But even before you get to dissecting it, collecting thousands of ...

Web scraping is a controversial topic these days—for some, it invokes dystopian images of big corporations invading their private data and using it to make robots smart enough to take human jobs. Thus ...

The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control ...

Retail markets move fast, especially now that many, if not all, major retailers are betting big on emphasizing ecommerce over physical locations. As part of this push, the once-reviled practice of ...

A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the U.K.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect ...