Ethical web scraping and data rights [Q&A]

Web scraping, automatically harvesting and extracting data from websites, can be a useful tool for businesses to learn about their customers. But it's easy to fall into the trap of harvesting data just because it's there, leading to information overload not to mention privacy concerns for the consumer. To find out more about web scraping and how it can be used in an ethical way we spoke to founder and CEO of Rayobyte, Neil Emeigh. BN: What is ethical scraping and how is it being used to collect consumer data? NE: Believe it or not, web scraping is something all… [Continue Reading]