“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 ...

As much as it’s easy to build a basic web scraper (assuming you have rudimentary computer literacy), it’s equally hard to ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In the modern digital industry, web scraping has become critically necessary for developers. Companies must rely on the results of objective market research, ...

(Reuters) - Is it time for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - a law enacted before ordinary people could even access computer networks – applies in the ...

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