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Update: hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.: A Federal Court Weighs in on Web Scraping, Free Speech Rights, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Automated collection of publicly accessible data (or data ‘scraping’) is widely practiced, but operates under a cloud as the use of automated tools to scrape is prohibited by the site terms of many on-line environments and various technical and legal means have been used to block the practice.