Dettol launches new campaign celebrating a mother's instinct to protectDettol launches an emotion-led campaign celebrating a mother’s instinct to protect. Conceptualised by Prasoon Joshi, the film highlights De...
03 Apr, 2026, 04.43 PM IST
Personal data isn't collected: MHA on security agencies using open-source intelligence from public sourcesSecurity agencies are utilizing open-source intelligence from public sources like social media for information gathering, assuring no priva...
31 Mar, 2026, 06.07 PM IST
Who is Anna’s Archives and was Spotify user data stolen in mega heist? Data leak explained and see if stolen files were released onlineWho is Anna’s Archives and was Spotify user data stolen in mega heist? A piracy group claims it scraped 86 million Spotify music files and ...
23 Dec, 2025, 10.59 PM IST
New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of contentThe New York Times has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity. The Times claims Perplexity copied and used its articles without perm...
06 Dec, 2025, 12.43 AM IST
Reddit accuses 'data scraper' companies of stealing its informationReddit is taking a firm stand against four data scraping companies, including SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy, by initiating legal proceedin...
23 Oct, 2025, 12.21 AM IST
Reddit locks out Wayback machine to stop AI from scraping old postsReddit has restricted the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from extensively capturing its content due to concerns over unauthorized AI da...
12 Aug, 2025, 01.57 AM IST
Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for allegedly using data without permissionAccording to the complaint, Anthropic has resisted entering a licensing agreement even as it trained its Claude chatbot on Reddit content, ...
05 Jun, 2025, 08.41 AM IST
Companies alert as along come AI web spidersAI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...
15 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Canadian news media are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, but will they win?The lawsuits claim that OpenAI "scraped" large amounts of content from media sites without permission. They have also claimed that the AI c...
02 Dec, 2024, 01.39 PM IST
ET Explainer: Cloudflare's new tool aims to block AI bots from scraping website contentCloudflare has introduced a new tool to block AI bots from scraping website content. The tool aims to protect content publishers from unaut...
09 Jul, 2024, 05.40 PM IST
Amazon is reviewing whether Perplexity AI improperly scraped online contentPerplexity AI, an AI startup, is under Amazon's review for scraping content. The company faces allegations of plagiarism and generating fak...
29 Jun, 2024, 10.15 AM IST
Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scrapingAI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the...
26 Jun, 2024, 09.17 AM IST
Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm saysPerplexity likely bypassed web crawler blocks via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as reported by Wired, using analytics to track AI traffic.
21 Jun, 2024, 08.47 PM IST
Elon Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping companyX Corp's legal battles over copyright violations against data-scraping companies were dismissed by Judge Alsup, raising concerns about mono...
10 May, 2024, 09.59 PM IST
It’s an important case; we should stay tuned: MoS IT on NYT lawsuit against OpenAI, MicrosoftLast Wednesday, New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, alleging that millions of its articles were used with...
01 Jan, 2024, 08.04 PM IST
AI chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted content: reportA top US news media trade group is calling out AI technology companies for scraping news material to train their chatbots, a media report s...
01 Nov, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance 'scraped' content from Instagram, SnapchatByteDance allegedly took videos, usernames, pictures and more from the social media platforms and uploaded them to the app without users' c...
05 Apr, 2022, 10.48 AM IST