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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“Web scraping” or “web harvesting”—the practice of extracting large amounts of data from publicly available websites using automated “bots” or “spiders”—accounted for 18% of site visitors and 23% of ...

Websites offer a substantial amount of information to their customers, subscribers and often the general public. Some websites, however require visitors to either ...

For more than a decade, screen scraping has been the traditional method for moving bank transaction data into an app like Mint. But the technique, which involves a computer attempting to read and ...

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 ...

“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 ...