One common misconception about scraping personal data is that public personal data does not fall under the GDPR. Many businesses assume that because the data has already been made public on another website that it is fair game to scrape. In actuality, GDPR makes no blanket exceptions for public personal data and the same analysis for any other personal data must be conducted prior to scraping...
In this the third post in our solution architecture series, we will share with you our step-by-step process for conducting a legal review of every web scraping project we work on.
When it comes to using web data as alternative data for investment decision making, one topic rules them all: compliance.
Regulatory compliance is such a pervasive issue in alternative data for finance, that it is often the number one barrier to investment firms using web data in their decision making processes. And matters aren’t helped by the regulatory ambiguity.
In this article, we’re...
I was recently invited to speak at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels about web scraping and GDPR. The panel also included Claire François of Hunton Andrews Kurth and Peter Brown from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). For more information you can check out my blog about this topic GDPR Compliance for Web Scrapers: The Step-by-Step Guide.
