A federal judge in South Carolina removed a ban on automated collection of online court records, a process known as scraping. The NAACP and ACLU wants to use scraping to locate eviction notices to assist tenants in fighting them. The state may still provide other alternatives to providing the information. (Techdirt, January 24, 2023, by Tim Cushing)
A ruling last year by the Ninth Circuit found that scraping does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), governing computer hacking. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that when information on a website or computer was publicly available, there could be no violation of the CFAA. (TechCrunch, April 18, 2022, by Zack Whittaker)
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