Supreme Court limits scope of CFAA, preserves web-scraping status quo
Sondra Campanelli, Head of News and Marketing (London)
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The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to limit the scope of a federal computer-hacking law that had implications for how data vendors collect and distribute data that’s scraped from the web.