In this article, the authors discuss a recent federal circuit
court decision and suggest that a company seeking the protection of
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should carefully analyze its data
access policies and practices.
A "defining feature of public websites is that their publicly
available sections lack limitations on access; instead, those
sections are open to anyone with a web browser." The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently reiterated in a
significant ruling in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn that the
capture of data from the publicly accessible webpages of LinkedIn
would not violate the prohibition in the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act ("CFAA") against accessing a computer "without
authorization."
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