The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, issued guidance detailing why scraping data from websites is illegal under the EU General Data Protection Regulation in most contexts. The AP claimed there is a general misunderstanding that the practice is legal if it scrapes public information from the internet, however, that does not mean individual users provided valid consent to others scraping their personal data.
Netherlands' DPA issues guidance against web scraping
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