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Data Scraping
158 published works
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Facebook Brings Suit against Developers of a Browser Extension That Harvested User Data
In continuing its efforts to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized scraping of user data, this week Facebook brought suit against two marketing analytics firms,…
Privacy World
ICO and Australian Information Commissioner Team-up to Investigate Clearview AI, Inc. Facial Recognition Tool and Data Scraping
Last week (9th July), the ICO announced that it would join forces with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) to investigate the use of personal information, including biometric…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
hiQ Files Opposition Brief with Supreme Court in LinkedIn CFAA Data Scraping Dispute
Last week, hiQ Labs, Inc. (“hiQ”) filed its brief urging the Supreme Court to deny LinkedIn Corp.’s (“LinkedIn”) petition for a writ of certiorari in the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster ruling in hiQ…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Wholesale Scraping of “Public” Data May Be Trade Secret Misappropriation
In what could be prove to be an important decision within the context of scraping of “public” data, in a recent case the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal…
Socially Aware Blog
Webscraping a Publicly Available Database May Constitute Trade Secret Misappropriation
By J. Alexander Lawrence, Lily Smith
Is scraping data from a publicly available website trade secret misappropriation? Based on a new opinion from the Eleventh Circuit, It might be. In Compulife Software, Inc. v. Newman, Compulife…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
French Data Protection Authority Speaks to Web Scraping
Late last month, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published guidance surrounding considerations behind what it calls “commercial prospecting,” meaning scraping publicly available website data to obtain individuals’ contact…
Proskauer on Privacy
French DPA Issues Guidance Surrounding Practice of Web Scraping
By Stéphanie Martinier, Mathilde Pépin, Jeffrey Neuburger, Jonathan Mollod
On April 30, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published a guidance surrounding considerations behind what it calls “commercial prospecting,” meaning scraping publicly available website data to obtain…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CNIL Publishes Guidance on Web Scraping and Re-Use of Publicly Available Online Data for Direct Marketing
On April 30, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority published guidance on the extraction of web users’ personal data from online public spaces by web scraping tools and re-use of…
Privacy Zone
Supreme Court May Weigh In on the Legality of Data Scraping
There was a sense among many that websites whose data was being scraped may have lost a claim against data scrapers last year—specifically, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Important Developments (Including Supreme Court Review) in the Interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
We continue to wait to see if the Supreme Court will accept LinkedIn’s petition to overturn the Ninth Circuit’s blockbuster ruling in the hiQ Labs case. In that case, the…