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Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner (PCPD) for Personal Data has joined data protection authorities from the UK, Australia and other countries to sign a global statement calling on social media platforms to guard against the mass scraping of personal data. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Fifteen other international privacy or data protections authorities issued […]
Introduction Web scraping typically refers to an automated process of collecting data from websites. On a high level, you’re essentially making a bot that visits a website, detects the data you’re interested in, and then stores it into some appropriate data structure, so you can easily analyze and access it later. However, if you’re concerned […]