Tag: data scraping

One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San Francisco of misusing large amounts ...

Google will record everything people post online in order to train its artificial intelligence products. On July 1, Google amended its privacy policy to allow it to scrape comments that posters put on the internet, to help it to hone its AI tools. The tech company’s plan to harvest and harness online public data is raising new privacy concerns. Google’s ...