Legal Challenges of TDM in Web-Scraped Content by EU companies - Zhulieta Mandazhieva
Channel: OpenFest Bulgaria
Date: 2019-12-20

NLP-based TDM is at the heart of many business functions and analyses nowadays. From search engine indexing and optimisation to business/media inteligence, global AML risk&compliance and effective headhunting, acquiring and utilising rich, relevant, diverse datasets is more lucrative than ever. Where does your data come from and can you trigger a lawsuit from an author, publisher or data subject? The Internet is global but IP and privacy laws are still national and it is not always a clear cut and safe bet to scrape data globally. I will try to raise some red flags, outline some safe harbours and instigate further discussion.