“Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.”
LinkedIn tried to use an anti-hacking law to stop a startup from reading public profiles. The Ninth Circuit said no, twice. Public data is public, and terms of service are not criminal law. The same logic covers Clearview AI scraping billions of faces, which is the part nobody celebrating wants to say out loud.