For years, website owners have leveraged the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) as a tool to combat unauthorized scraping of data and other content from their websites. Due to a circuit court ...

“The Court should grant LinkedIn’s writ of certiorari, which LinkedIn has stated that it will file, and provide guidance on how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should be interpreted. The failure to ...

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “According to an aspect ...

“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 ...

Websites offer a substantial amount of information to their customers, subscribers and often the general public. Some websites, however require visitors to either ...