R. Mark Halligan of FisherBroyles LLP discusses Compulife Software, Inc. v. Newman and whether trade secret misappropriation occurred in "scraping" a public website to acquire a competitor's data.

Cloudflare has accused AI giant Perplexity of scraping websites which explicitly disallowed crawling via robots.txt and other network-level rules by hiding its identity and conducting obfuscated ...

Public websites are fair game for data scrapers and others — including journalists and academics — who want to access information without worrying about potential criminal exposure.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.