Regulation ·
The EDPB clarifies the legal framework for web scraping
Original title, in French: “Le CEPD clarifie le cadre juridique du web scraping”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 15 October 2026 · read in the page metadata
Summary
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published guidelines on web scraping used to train generative AI models, open for consultation until the end of October 2026. The text reiterates that collecting personal data accessible online remains subject to the GDPR and stresses the principle of data minimisation: targeted collection, exclusion of sensitive data or data relating to minors, and possible use of synthetic data. The EDPB recommends excluding sites that use opt-out mechanisms (robots.txt, CAPTCHA) and specifies that a company that outsources collection to service providers remains the data controller. The article also mentions the copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, the latter being targeted by CNN and Dow Jones.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · Consulting, legal, accounting, business services
- Companies
- Dow Jones (cited), Perplexity (cited), CNN (cited), OpenAI (cited), Anthropic (cited)
- Keywords
- web scraping, gdpr, copyright, model training, ai regulation, data protection
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.