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The CFAA is arbitrarily enforced and it is impossible to know if you are safe legally. People in this thread are saying that publicly accessible data is safe to
by shiado 7y ago
The CFAA is arbitrarily enforced and it is impossible to know if you are safe legally. People in this thread are saying that publicly accessible data is safe to scrape but that certainly wasn't the case in United States v. Andrew Auernheimer.
- ddebernardy 7y agoSandvig v. Sessions is more recent and says otherwise for publicly available information: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-computer-crime https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...
- userbinator 7y agoI think this is the most important sentence from that article: does not make it a crime to access information in a manner that the website doesn’t like if you are otherwise entitled to access that same information.
- malshe 7y agoI think the legal developments around this topic have been fluid, which has made it difficult to keep a track of the current state of the matter. I will check out the case you mention.