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Court in China rules against unreasonable use of Web scraping in landmark case

By MLex Staff ( November 27, 2024, 08:31 GMT | Insight) -- A court in Shanghai has recently ruled in favor of the e-commerce social platform Dewu in a dispute centering on the scraping of the app’s publicly available product data by a web-crawler program, drawing a line on the reasonable use of the data scraping-technology....

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