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EFF, Mozilla, others say Perplexity AI not liable for user access to Amazon

( April 8, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, and others told a US appeals court that simply providing a tool to “access” a website cannot give rise to liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They filed a brief in support of the court reversing an injunction against Perplexity AI in a case brought by Amazon over its Comet AI agent. The organizations argued that liability does not apply because when a user accesses an Amazon webpage using Comet, the browser — running on the user’s computer — obtains the content of the page from Amazon, without Perplexity every “accessing” Amazon’s servers. See attached file. ...

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