Global authorities publish initiative on data scraping and protection

Statement from 12 nations aims to protect users’ data from unlawful scraping, and has been sent to the largest social media companies.

Twelve global data protection and privacy authorities have published a joint statement calling for the protection of people’s personal data from unlawful data scraping taking place on social media sites.

The authorities warn that data scraping, which is an automated way to pull large amounts of information from

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