On July 7, 2026, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published draft guidelines on web scraping for generative AI. The Guidelines are intended to provide practical GDPR guidance in one of the more complex areas of AI development and will be of direct relevance to any organization building or procuring generative AI systems trained on internet-sourced data The Guidelines apply to both organizations that scrape data from external internet sources to train generative AI systems and those that acquire and reuse pre-scraped datasets from third parties.
Source: What Do the European Data Protection Board’s Web Scraping Guidelines Mean for AI Training Datasets?