Hackers are increasingly trying to refine their attacks and now have court approval to do so.
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The U.S. Ninth Appellate Circuit has ruled that scraping public information is not against the law. Web scraping is the technical term for extracting information from a website. For example, if you copy some text from an article as a quote, that is scraping. It gets into a legal gray area when the scraping is done by automated programs that scrape entire websites, especially those containing personal information such as names and email addresses.
“The sheer amount of information that can be freely harvested from the Internet is a concern for both individuals and organizations, as this information can be easily used by attackers to enhance phishing attacks [for example], VMware Principal Cybersecurity Strategist Rick McElroy told Lifewire via email.
The ruling is part of a legal battle between LinkedIn and hiQ Labs, a talent management company that uses public LinkedIn data to analyze employee turnover.
