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 ...
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 ...
JD Supra

Ninth Circuit Reaffirms that Data Scraping from Public Websites Does Not Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

In September 2019, the Ninth Circuit held that hiQ Labs, Inc.’s (“hiQ”) collection and use of information that LinkedIn users shared on their public profiles did not violate the Computer Fraud and ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

“System, Method And Computer Program For Data Scraping Using Script Engine” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20190332424)

“The screen scraping technology has been widespread in the United States since the late 1990s, and in Korea, since FINGER INC. established in 2000 first developed this technology and started providing ...