ITALIAN DPA’s INVESTIGATION INTO WEBSCRAPING
The Privacy Authority launches an investigation of websites on protection from the so called webscraping: the technique of automatically extracting data from web pages. All websites will be subjected to the authority’s scrutiny.
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), the Data Protection Authority is working to preserve the sensitivity of personal information in an increasingly complex digital environment. A recent development led the Authority to launch an in-depth investigation into the practice of webscraping, focusing on the massive collection of personal data online for the training of AI algorithms by third parties.
But what is webscraping? Webscraping is a technique of automatically extracting data from web pages.
