Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
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Federal Court Rules Cease-and-Desist Letter Insufficient to Revoke Authorization for CFAA Claim
In an online world where websites are often publicly accessible, the question of how and...
Ahmed Eissa, Stacey Brandenburg
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X Gets Aggressive About Scraping on its Platform
X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, has launched a multi-faceted attack on scraping...
Ahmed Eissa, Stacey Brandenburg, Zach Lerner
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hiQ v. LinkedIn Wrapped Up: Web Scraping Lessons Learned
The five-year dispute between hiQ Labs and LinkedIn over web scraping has come to an...
Ahmed Eissa, Sheri Pan, Stacey Brandenburg
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hiQ v. LinkedIn: Breach of Contract and CFAA Claims Proceed to Trial
For those following web scraping caselaw, the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn Corporation case has been one to...
Ahmed Eissa, Daniel Levin, Stacey Brandenburg, Sheri Pan
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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...
Sheri Pan, Stacey Brandenburg
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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...
F. Mario Trujillo, Stacey Brandenburg, Marc Zwillinger
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DC Court Ruling Reduces Webscraping Risk
In a decision that reduces some risk associated with webscraping, the United States District Court...
Stacey Brandenburg, Liz DeYoung, Marc Zwillinger
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Ninth Circuit Rules that Scraping a Public Website is Likely Not a CFAA Violation
In the highly-anticipated decision in the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn case, the Ninth Circuit upheld the...
Marc Zwillinger, Stacey Brandenburg, Zach Lerner
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Is 2014 Finally the Year for Federal Data Security Breach Legislation?
Clients often ask whether we think a particular piece of privacy, data security, consumer protection...
ZwillGen
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Persistent Scraper May Violate CFAA By Circumventing IP Blocking
In an order issued on Friday, the Northern District of California found that defendant 3Taps,...
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