JD Supra

Web Scraping Watch: Cases Set to Clarify Application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...
JD Supra

Legal Landscape of Web Scraping and Practice Tips

This Legal Alert is a follow up to our June 3, 2021 Legal Alert, “Supreme Court Narrows Scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” and provides an overview of relevant legal developments related to ...
Ars Technica

Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

Scraping a public website without the approval of the website’s owner isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that ...
IPWatchdog

Does ‘Scraping’ Data Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

“The Court should grant LinkedIn’s writ of certiorari, which LinkedIn has stated that it will file, and provide guidance on how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should be interpreted. The failure to ...