Van Buren v. United States
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April 20, 2022
Ninth Circuit Says It Again: Scraping of Public Websites Is Generally Not a CFAA Violation
On remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit again affirmed the preliminary injunction precluding LinkedIn from blocking access to public profiles on the professional networking platform (hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation). This latest...
Sheri Pan, Stacey Brandenburg
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June 4, 2021
SCOTUS Rules CFAA Does Not Contain Purpose-Based Restrictions
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that people do not exceed authorized access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) when they merely access information on a computer for an improper purpose. ...
F. Mario Trujillo, Stacey Brandenburg, Marc Zwillinger
