Privacy & Cybersecurity

Scraping public data from a website probably isn’t hacking, says court

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act doesn’t prevent a company from scraping LinkedIn’s site data, according to a recent Ninth Circuit decision.

September 10, 2019

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