The US Ninth Circuit of Appealshas ruledthat scraping public data isnt against the law.
Web scraping is the technical term for extracting information from a website.
For instance, when you copy some text from an article as a quote, thats scraping.
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The only practical solution for individuals concerned about privacy is to stop oversharing… LinkedIn doesnt view web scraping in the same light.
The details could also be (ab)used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets.
“You should assume it will be copied, archived, manipulated, or even weaponized against you.”
