Courts have spent years working through how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) applies to web scraping, including whether access to a website occurs “without authorization.” In Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc.,...

Since the advent of the Internet, scrapers, platforms, and content owners alike have tried to identify the legal bounds and restrictions for web scraping. Scrapers want to access content at scale, and platforms seek to...

In an online world where websites are often publicly accessible, the question of how and when a website owner can bring a claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) when it revokes “authorization”...

The federal district court in the Southern District of Idaho denied Kochava’s second attempt to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s allegations that the data broker aggregated and sold large amounts of sensitive consumer data in violation of...

The five-year dispute between hiQ Labs and LinkedIn over web scraping has come to an end. Around December 6, 2022, the parties reached a private settlement, and hiQ agreed to a permanent injunction requiring it...

For those following web scraping caselaw, the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn Corporation case has been one to watch. While prior decisions largely involved a preliminary injunction, the federal district court in California has now ruled on LinkedIn’s remaining...