Global privacy regulators join forces to warn about scraping publicly available information

On August 24, 2023, twelve international data protection and privacy regulators from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and APAC announced their “global expectations of social media platforms and other sites to safeguard against unlawful data scraping”. This appears to be in response to the increasing use of data scraping technologies and reiterates guidance previously provided by regulators like the Office of the Australian Information Commission and United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s…
By: Hogan Lovells