Friday, 24 March, 2023

Web scraping deemed legal by US court

<p>In a recent case, the Ninth Circuit Court has affirmed that scraping of data that is publicly available is not illegal. The decision is welcome news for researchers, journalists, academics who frequently use web scraping tools to collect publicly accessible information. The court said that web scraping does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which deals with computer hacking in the US, as the concept of authorization is not applicable to public websites.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p>