US court says web scraping is officially legal
US court says web scraping is officially legal LinkedIn has lost another legal battle When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Scraping public data is legal, the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals has ruled in a potentially landmark decision. The decision follows a ruling by a federal court of appeals that reaffirmed its earlier decision, notably that web scraping (data harvesting, en masse) of data that’s made available to the general public, does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)....