The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and data protection authorities from 16 nations issued a followup statement regarding results and dialogue from a joint inquiry of social media companies’ data scraping practices. The DPAs launched their probe in August 2023 and social media companies have since “implemented many of the measures that were identified,” including “platform design elements” and “safeguards that leverage artificial intelligence.” The inquiry also provided DPAs a window into “challenges that organizations face in protecting against unlawful scraping.”
Full story