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 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 ...

AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Two wholesale clothing suppliers filed trademark infringement and trade secrets misappropriation claims against a North ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...

It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news ...

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is ...

(Reuters) - Public websites are fair game for data scrapers and others — including journalists and academics — who want to access information without worrying about potential criminal exposure. That's ...

Facebook’s long-term strategy is to desensitize users about leaked data dumps that were collected through scraping the public portion of the social network. The plan was revealed after the company ...

Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, ...