Courts mull constitutionality of scraping public records
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