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Holland & Knight LLP

Problem of Sequential Numbers and "Screen Scraping"

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When I was in high school, the seniors would pull a prank in the late spring after college acceptance letters came in. It usually involved animals. The class above us released crickets in the lunchroom; another class set up...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Relief for White Hat Hackers and Web Scrapers?

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In an effort to “promote privacy and cybersecurity by upholding the legal right of individuals, network owners, operators, and other persons to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored in...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

DOJ Revises Policy for CFAA Prosecution to Reflect Developments in Web Scraping and Other Matters

On May 19, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had revised its policy regarding prosecution under the federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Since the DOJ last made changes...more

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What Happened on LinkedIn?

On June 22, 2021, a hacker announced the sale of over 700,000 pieces of personal information from LinkedIn. In a report detailed by ComputerWeekly.com, almost all of LinkedIn’s users were impacted by what the organization is...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

The First Wave of CCPA Allegations Makes Its Way Into a New Data Breach Class Action Against Salesforce and Hanna Andersson

The companies Salesforce.com, Inc. and Hanna Andersson, LLC are on the receiving end of a novel lawsuit, which appears to be the very first data breach class action ever filed with alleged violations of the California...more

Fish & Richardson

The CFAA: Shield or Anti-Competitive Sword in the World of Data Scraping?

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Most people think of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. § 1030, as the federal criminal statute addressing computer hacking and other cybercrime. But as more and more businesses vest their enterprise value in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: A seminal opinion on web scraping; Obama breaks Twitter record; court holds state’s subpoena law applies to digital...

In an opinion granting a preliminary injunction preventing LinkedIn from blocking a startup’s use of information in LinkedIn profiles accessible to the entire public, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more

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