The position of the CNIL on Data Privacy implications of Web scraping.

On April 30, 2020, the French data protection authority (“DPA”, known as the CNIL) published guidance concerning the practice of scraping publicly available website data to obtain individuals’ contact information for purposes of selling such data to third parties for direct marketing purposes. The guidance was issued following inspections carried out by the CNIL in 2019.

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