Security & Compliance
8 juli 2026Scraping the web into your vector DB: EDPB's new rules
At its 122nd plenary on 7 July 2026 the EDPB adopted draft Guidelines 03/2026 on web scraping for generative AI and draft Guidelines 02/2026 on anonymisation, the first comprehensive GDPR framework for large-scale scraping of public web data into AI pipelines. We walk through the legitimate interest test, the new legal weight of robots.txt and ai.txt, the Article 9 lifecycle safeguards, and what it means for teams ingesting web content into RAG on Azure.
EDPB
GDPR
Web Scraping
RAG
Vector Databases
Generative AI
Anonymisation
Legitimate Interest
Data Minimisation
Azure AI
Av Falak Mahmood