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Re:Meta sues surveillance company for scraping data with fak... by dns_snek on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:01AM (#34369609)
Isn't the case presented here slightly different? In LinkedIn's case the data was publicly available. In this case they were either accessing data that was only available to registered users (but otherwise "public"), or they only used fake accounts to bypass rate limits imposed on unregistered users.

Does the account requirement change whether the data is considered publicly available on sites with open signups?

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Re:Meta sues surveillance company for scraping data with fak... by nhchris on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:05AM (#34369676)
It's hard to argue something isn't public if the only barrier is making a free account. But whether a court will be sensible about it is a different question, I agree.
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