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McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

FOIA Buddy and RTKL Requests: What Municipalities Need to Know

The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records issued an alert concerning anonymous Right to Know Law requests generated by an online service called FOIA Buddy after receiving reports from “numerous” agencies. On its website, FOIA...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Ninth Circuit Finds (Again) that Automated Web Scraping of Public Sites Is Legal

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn that automated web scraping of publicly accessible websites does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if the website owner...more

Sunstein LLP

Exploitation of Publicly Available Website Data May be Unstoppable

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Data scraping is a technique by which automated tools are used to extract data from a website and format the data for analysis. Many companies mine website users’ publicly accessible data in order to tailor products and...more

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

Data Scraping, at Home and Abroad

Data scraping is a technique where information on one platform is exported onto another. The practice is widespread and is used for all sort of reasons, like market analysis or advertising. The kind of information located and...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Data Aggregator Seeks Ruling Allowing It to Scrape Public LinkedIn Data

In the latest development in the legal controversy over scraping, 3taps, Inc. (“3taps”), a data aggregator and “exchange platform” for developers, filed suit against LinkedIn seeking a declaratory judgment that 3taps would...more

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