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Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Web Publisher Seeks Injunctive Relief to Address Web Scraper’s Domain Name Maneuvers Intended to Avoid Court Order

Late last year, Chegg Inc. (“Chegg”), an online learning platform, obtained a preliminary injunction based on allegations that the various operators of the Homeworkify website (“Defendants”) – which allows users to view...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Things We Learned at the 2023 IAPP Global Privacy Summit

The International Association of Privacy Professionals held its annual Global Privacy Summit on April 4-5 in Washington, D.C. Here are some things we learned. 1. Generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is Ubiquitous in the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Data for the Taking: Using Website Terms and Conditions to Combat Web Scraping

Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of extracting large amounts of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Data for the Taking: Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Combat Web Scraping

“Web scraping” or “web harvesting”—the practice of extracting large amounts of data from publicly available websites using automated “bots” or “spiders”—accounted for 18% of site visitors and 23% of all Internet traffic in...more

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