The Globe and Mail

Despite the flaws of ‘screen scraping,’ Ottawa should be thoughtful in how it phases it out

Parna Sabet-Stephenson is the leader of Gowling WLG’s Financial Services and Technology (FSxT) Group. Whether they know it or not, an estimated nine million Canadians routinely share their private ...
Ars Technica

Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording

Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them ...
Business Insider

The CEO of a $6 billion fintech explains how the huge risk he took with thousands of banks paid off big

Plaid's CEO said the company made a risky gamble in its early days. Plaid pulled user data from 12,000 banks using screen scraping. Some of the company's early work with banks was "antagonistic," said ...
The Australian Financial Review

Treasury considers an end to bank account password sharing

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Treasury is considering banning “screen scraping” of financial data from bank accounts, a move that could force data sharing across ...