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ACLU, others ask US appeals court to protect automated digital tools

( April 8, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union and others told a US appeals court that it should decline to apply the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to automated digital tools — including web scrapers, browser extensions, and artificial intelligence-based tools — because doing so would chill critical independent journalism and research in the public interest. The organizations filed a brief in defense of Perplexity AI in a case brought by Amazon. They argued that computer crime laws were intended to apply only to online conduct that is akin to breaking and entering, and imposing liability on Perplexity for its Comet AI agent would expose journalists and researchers to civil and criminal penalties for using the digital tools of their trade.See attached file. ...

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